Digital Myopia of Nursing and Geriatric Care

KREMS, Austria - May 1, 2022 - PRLog -- The growing use of smart control and monitoring tools in nursing increasingly decouples it from ethical and moral considerations - this is the core thesis of a now internationally published analysis by a researcher at Karl Landsteiner University for Health Sciences in Krems (Austria). The argument, published in Nursing Philosophy, convincingly sets out the change in role that digital monitoring and AI-based decision-making processes are bringing about for nurses: Perceiving care recipients as people with individual needs could fall victim to standardized, "smart" decision-making processes. However, involving nursing staff in the development of monitoring technologies or redefining the nursing profession could provide a remedy.

Original publication: Adiaphorisation and the digital nursing gaze: Liquid surveillance in long‐term care. G. Rubeis, Nursing Philosophy. 2022;e12388. , DOI: 10.1111/nup.12388

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