These are questions that health care providers must ask themselves as we live in a highly technical society today. Space to Breathe is a consumer focused patient education program designed for parents of children with asthma. The program has a laundry list of items the learner can access related to asthma and using inhalers with spacers. Review of the Literature Technology is rapidly changing in the health care field. Computer training is becoming part of nursing education and hospital orientations.
Nurses are at many different levels in regards to computer literacy.
It is these two issues that create the dilemma nursing is now facing. Nurses preparation for using the computer have not kept up with the rising expectations which have been generated. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the ability of staff nurses in a hospital setting to access the program Space to Breathe at their work setting. As the literature states, as many as thirty percent of nursing are uncomfortable with computers. Once the program was accessed the RN would then give feedback on the feasibility of using such a program for patient education.