Speaking from my own personal experience as a Physical Therapist, I
noticed a difference in how technology is used in various industries. The
usage of technology varies depending on the policies, work system, and
ethics of each organization. As a Physical Therapist, I worked at a
prestigious large cancer hospital, a private rehabilitation center, and my
own private practice, which included home visits and remote patient
visits. According to the different settings, the role of technology looked
to be different and had different requirements. Private rehabilitation
utilized technology to be client-specific, allowing them to provide proper
and effective rehabilitation. Technology was used in a more agile,
patient-centered, and in experimental manner.
Whereas, in the cancer center where I worked, there was constant
pressure to remain updated, successful, and dependable. They had to
meet their monthly goals and stay up to date in order to report to the
stakeholders. The hospital featured multidisciplinary departments
ranging from diagnostic to curative to palliative care, and the role of
technology was varied and equally vital in each. While I used technology
to treat my home patients, it was either to save assessment data, obtain
consents, and follow ethical guidelines, or to use various technological
tools to treat my patients in a person-centered manner.
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A nurse in an emergency room would have different responsibilities and
access to technology than a nurse in a specialized ward or a nurse in an
operating room, and a community health nurse would use it very
differently.In a healthcare insurance organization, a nurse would use
new technologies to manage risk and make use of complex
patient/client data; it would be a critical step in preventing and
predicting a specific condition; the data would have to be shared
between different parties and insurers in the claim of prevention,
whereas in a private practice, technology would be used for
communication or specific intervention. Regarding management of
information, a smaller EMR software would be required at a hospital with
200 beds, whereas a larger 500-bed hospital would demand stronger
updated software.
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