High-tech home care for nurses: questioning technologies.
To build a common ground for questioning, this paper describes and defines technology, inappropriate technology, technology assessment, and technological regimes that community health nurses confront. Then, control of technology and effects on individual, family, and community are explored. In conclusion, two decision-making guides are proposed to help the home health nurse assess the human effects of technology and to support family decisions about whether technology is appropriate.
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D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D003152:Community Health Nursing; D003657:Decision Making; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D013677:Medical Laboratory Science; D009730:Nursing Assessment