TECHNOLOGY AND NURSING CARE: IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING EDUCATION.
Contributors: Temple University.
Published: 1987
Number of pages: 192
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.; Education, Health.
Description: The basic problem of this study was to describe the impact of technology on nursing care. The principal aim was to derive implications for nursing education.

Myocardial disease, cancer of the lung and stroke were selected as national health problems because they present both acute and chronic manifestations, and because their statistical frequency and severity impact directly on nursing care and nursing education. The technologies attendant to each national health problem and the technology common to all three, the ventilator, were described. The increasing use of the ventilator, in particular, resulted in a call for the development of criteria for brain death. Alternative brain death criteria were critically reviewed and the controversies related to these criteria were compared and contrasted to the Harvard Criteria.

Major implications of this study included the call for a linkage between nursing care and nursing education. It was hypothesized that national health problems can become a source of limitation for nursing problems. It was further hypothesized that national health problems have the potential for the development of alternative theoretic constructs that characterize nursing care. If nursing care impacts on nursing education, and if both nursing care and nursing education find their source of constraint in nursing problems, then the linkage problem between nursing care and nursing education would be amenable to critical review by nurse theorists for assessment of consistency and for possible modification. These alternative theoretic constructs that describe nursing problems would provide the basis for determining the adequacy and appropriateness of the application of technologies, the application of brain death criteria, and the linkage between nursing care and nursing education.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 48-04, Section: B, page: 1003.

Thesis (ED.D.)--TEMPLE UNIVERSITY, 1987.

School code: 0225.