This prevalent diagnosis, along with its requisite medication regime has been especially notable for the difficulties noted in medication compliance. The focus of this poster presentation will be to provide case study results from 4 patients with the goal of demonstrating the utility of this MEMS cap approach. Technology provides dramatic new ways to improve patient care and facilitate nursing practice. Video telephones and MEMS caps are two examples of how technology facilitates creative practice which can then be utilized to help elderly patients with difficult tasks such as medication management. Memory loss and social isolation are challenging problems for nurses.
Technology provides new methods for caring, monitoring patient and developing nursing strategies.
The purpose of this qualitative study is to understand and describe how visiting home nurses experience the practice of nursing in the inner city and how the nurses perceive the introduction and use of hand-held computer technology into their practice. The nurse can now connect with institutions through these existing information links and communicate patient care needs. Technologies currently exist to solve many of the problems identified by a group of experienced visiting nurses. By conducting focus groups with visiting home nurses and analyzing the content of the transcripts, phenomenon are discovered from the perspective of the nurses themselves. This qualitative study seeks to explain and describe the concerns, needs and problems identified by a group of experienced visiting nurses who are on the frontline of providing home health care in the inner city.