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As information technologies alter professional routines in nursing, many professionals, including advanced practice nurses, question the effectiveness of technologies and their use in health care. For years, the use of technologies has been regarded as the gold standard of nursing care. Nurses gradually shifted their priorities towards using technological innovations as part of their professional competencies. However, human-technology interfaces in nursing can be equally advantageous and deleterious for the basic nursing practices. The privacy and security limitations of advanced technologies are widely documented. Even more problematic is nurses' resistance to using innovative technologies with the goal of improving their effectiveness in the workplace.
As a clinical nurse, I have witnessed the implementation of new technologies in our department. However, it is not until we have got a telehealth solution that I was able to reconsider the benefits and problems of the human-technology interfaces. Telenursing is a relatively new approach to delivering nursing care, which implies that telehealth technologies are used to deliver and enh...