Background: Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques are being applied in nursing and midwifery to improve decision-making, patient care and service delivery. However, an understanding of the real-world applications of AI across all domains of both professions is limited.
Objectives: To synthesise literature on AI in nursing and midwifery.
Providing urgent and emergency care to migrant children is often hampered or delayed. Reasons for this are language barriers when children, and their care givers, don't speak any of the languages commonly spoken in Switzerland, which include German, French, Italian, and English. By a participatory design process, we want to develop a novel image-based digital communication aid tailored to the needs of migrant patients and nurses within Swiss paediatric clinics.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLanguage barriers hamper or delay delivery of urgent and emergency care to migrant children when they or their parents don't speak any of the languages commonly spoken in Switzerland. In such situations, nurses often fall back to use ad hoc communication aids, including translation apps and visual dictionaries, to collect information about a patient's medical history. In this paper, we report on the participatory design process for a novel image-based communication aid.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUnlabelled: Involvement of employees, residents, and relatives in digital transformation at long-term care institutions for older adults - A cross-sectional survey Background: Long-term care institutions for older adults are currently undergoing a digital transformation process. But who are the decision-makers in this transformation process?
Aim: The aim of the study was to determine the role of employees, residents, and their relatives in the provision of the technical solutions used in long-term care institutions.
Methods: The standardized online survey was conducted at 466 long-term care institutions throughout Switzerland.
To explore relatives', community nurses' and general practitioners' perspectives and experiences in promoting Personal Safety Alerting Device (PSAD) use among community-dwelling older adults, we applied a qualitative study design. Altogether 15 focus groups and 11 semi-structured interviews were conducted. Data-analysis followed the Qualitative Analysis Guide of Leuven.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAims: To explore reasons, thoughts, motives, and influencing factors regarding the use or non-use of Personal Safety Alerting Devices (PSADs) in the daily lives of community-dwelling older persons.
Design: A qualitative descriptive study design was used.
Methods: Six focus groups were conducted with a total of 32 older persons between February-August 2016.
Background: Residential old age institutions are currently undergoing a digital transformation process, which is characterized by an orientation towards increasing digitalization of work processes as well as the institutional infrastructure. But what does the variety of technical solutions used in these old-age institutions look like and how is the digital transformation process assessed by the managers of these institutions?
Material And Methods: The survey was carried out as a standardized online survey of residential old age homes throughout Switzerland. The respective managers were interviewed.
Aims And Objectives: To explore the perception and issues regarding the ability of nursing teams to manage patient and visitor aggression in clinical practice, from ward managers' perspectives.
Background: Patient and visitor aggression causes substantial human suffering and financial damage in healthcare organisations. Nurse managers are key persons for developing their teams' efficacy in dealing with patient and visitor aggression.
Aims And Objectives: Community-dwelling older people were involved in the testing of a fall detection device to improve its utilisation and acceptance in everyday life.
Background: The usability of alerting devices remains unsatisfactory, as they are scarcely utilised by older people, despite wide recognition of the importance of rapid assistance after a fall. Moreover, the time a person remains on the floor negatively impacts the severity of fall consequences.
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore a non-technical overview for leaders and researchers about how to use a communications perspective to better assess, design and use digital health technologies (DHTs) to improve healthcare performance and to encourage more research into implementation and use of these technologies. Design/methodology/approach Narrative overview, showing through examples the issues and benefits of introducing DHTs for healthcare performance and the insights that communications science brings to their design and use. Findings Communications research has revealed the many ways in which people communicate in non-verbal ways, and how this can be lost or degraded in digitally mediated forms.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To explore the needs and preferences of community-dwelling older people, by involving them in the device design and mock-up development stage of a fall detection device, consisting of a body-worn sensor linked to a smartphone application.
Patients And Methods: A total of 22 community-dwelling persons 75 years of age and older were involved in the development of a fall detection device. Three semistructured focus group interviews were conducted.
Background: The involvement of users is recommended in the development of health related technologies, in order to address their needs and preferences and to improve the daily usage of these technologies. The objective of this literature review was to identify the nature and extent of research involving older people in the development of fall detection systems.
Methods: A scoping review according to the framework of Arksey and O'Malley was carried out.