Clinical assessment skills and the use of monitoring equipment.
The relationship between nursing and technology remains contested. This article debates whether technology--in particular the monitoring of cardiac function, oxygen saturation, respiratory rate, blood pressure and temperature--helps to provide better nursing care or whether it hinders nurses from developing their clinical assessment skills, and prevents them from providing humanistic and holistic care.
Nottingham Children's Hospital.
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Harley
Stephen
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Timmons
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