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= IT June 19, 2020 -- A new meaning for the term nursing informatics? I have blogged at length here about nursing informatics. Recent experience adds a whole new layer: tech support for patients. This is a thing. Requests from patients on a variety of units where I have worked recently have been for things like, "My phone's charger cable broke; can you find me another?" or "How do I get a network connection so I can Skype with my family?" Especially in these times of Covid-19 when inpatients are increasingly isolated -- for infection control, visitors are no longer permitted -- technology is essential for human contact. And often the only way to get tech support is to ask a nurse. A new challenge! Go nurses! |
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"The United States alone [among wealthy countries] treats health care as a commodity to be distributed according to the ability to pay rather than a social service to be distributed according to medical need." — JAMA (2003), 290, 798