NURS FPX 4040 Assessment 3 Evidence-Based Proposal and Annotated Bibliography on Technology in Nursing

The healthcare industry has gone through a revolutionary change in the last few years mostly due to the use of technological advancements aimed at improving patient’s health, organizational efficiency, and ensuring patient safety (Smith & Johnson, 2020). In this frame of innovations, delivery robots seem to be a rising trend in those issues that have to do with logistics, medication, and infection control in health facilities. These robotic machines serve the purpose of carrying supplies, medications, and other materials across the facilities thus reducing human error, speeding up intricate processes, and lessening human contact in a scenario such as infectious diseases (Choi & Park, 2021). The implementation of delivery robots in the nursing care practice entails the possibility of transforming healthcare delivery by optimizing workflow efficiency and improving quality and safety (Wang et al., 2022). Nevertheless, the proper implementation of a delivery robot refers to the whole information on its implications for nurse workflow, patient safety, and nurse experience (Jones & Smith, 2021). This proposal is based on the scientific evidence. It explores the outcomes of integrating delivery robots in nursing practice and it includes a bibliography consisting of peer-reviewed publications examining this topic.

Current Evidence on the Impact of a Selected Patient Care Technology

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) with all they represent are the best technological advances in the modern healthcare system aimed at not only reducing human errors but also toward enhancing quality of care and ensuring effective collaboration between health care givers from diverse backgrounds. EHR based on IT technologies ensures the central access to patient information, like medical records or treatment plans, which leads to timely interventions and allows making educated treatment decisions (Cimino & Patel, 2019). Countless of the studies demonstrate the fact that patient safety is the first one to benefit in a meaningful way from the usage of EHRs, in particular, from real-time access to the vital patient information and decision support the systems. Consequently, these systems prompt medical personnel to potential issues of adverse drug interactions or contraindications that increase medication safety and cut down harmful events. Nevertheless, EHRs’ efficacy in accomplishing the task of patient safety improvement is not free from arithmetic challenges. Those issues fatigue, the usability and the probabilities that the clinicians may become desensitized and miss the important alerts lead to the barriers that are considered to be significant (Collins et al., 2020). Apart from this, the main concern is the trust and the feeling of confidence that will be lost in the documents that were used for the clinical purpose. This will be as a result of the “copy and paste” errors and the interoperability issues. Therefore, there is a need for more optimization efforts to ensure that the safety benefits of EHRs are maximized.

Integration of Current Evidence About the Impact of Patient Care Technology

Human integration of delivery robots in healthcare facilities investing multidimensional solution that develops patient safety, degree of care delivered, and interdisciplinary collaboration to a great degree. This research has proved repeatedly that medication errors and nosocomial infections are reduced drastically with the help of delivery robots, which allow patients to be saved from harmful incidents (Lee et al., 2019). Through their capability to do automated delivery of both medications and supplies, these robots prevent the risk of the human error commonly associated with manual distribution where there can be inaccuracy or failure. As a result, this leads to the successful execution of clinical procedures and care. Furthermore, the robustness of delivery robots’ uncluttered operational processes means the medication delivery time is apparently shortened and the nursing staff can then divert their focus and time to patient care activities as much as possible (Lee et al., 2019). Besides the promotion of the effectiveness of care deliverables timeliness and care quality, this optimization of workflow efficiency also increases the general perception of patients about their health. Moreover, the robots for delivery are a common platform for technology where as healthcare providers work together to maximize their collective efforts (Smith et al., 2020). Two main advantages caused by the use of robots in medicine interdisciplinary teams will be:a) real-time data access and status notification by robots on one hand, and b) provide more opportunity for teams to get into communication, anticipate patient needs, and coordinate care as accurately. In this context, collaboration and teamwork are necessary; th