Nurse Portal Analysis

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Now, people are using technology to communicate with friends or families. A type of technology that is used frequently is the Internet. The Internet allows people to connect with people and can gain facts that are essential for people to live. Nurse uses technology such as the Internet and wireless devices to communicate in their field. This can makes nurses life’s easier than tracking down a colleague to know what to do if something terrible happens such as patients falling out of their beds. Besides making the nurses life easier, the healthcare field is growing because of the baby boomer generation. The health care field is one of the fastest growing field in the United States. “According to Guenther and Hall (2007), nurses are the most reliable …show more content…

A nurses’ portal icon was downloaded onto their desktops. A way to access the patients’ records was by typing their username and password. Also, patients do not have to wait while a nurse is looking for their medical history. After collecting data, they were able to make some modifications such as adding a link on “How do you use the nursing portal. The researcher could determine if this was successful and it was. Eighty-nine percent of nurses had access of the nurse portal. The reason for this nurse portal is to enhance the flow of nurses’ different tasks. Nurses use manual blood pressure cuffs to take blood pressure of patients. Sometimes the measurement of the blood pressure is not accurate because the nurses life is complex when they take their blood pressure manually. Some nurses forget how to take patient blood pressure by the cause of workload and time constraints. Another fact to think about is that not all blood pressure cuffs are all the same size. Some nurse do not realize they are using the wrong cuff for the wrong …show more content…

One of the way to support this fact is that some nurse use social media for a way for patient to gain information on how to have health habits in life. Also if nurse are have knowledge in using a plan to care for the patient’s needs, they can do it through social media. An additional reason that social medial is an advantage for now is that a patient committee will establish a list of resources that could give the nurses information. So later, the patients will have the information. The goal is to make sure patients have high quality of information to obtain a higher level of patient care. If nurses chose to post any comments, they should make sure that it is used to ensure that it used in an ethical way to promote individual practice and promote the caring of patents. These are the reason why social media can be helpful to the nurses and patients. An additional reason is that nurse can work more efficiently with social

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