Computers, Robots and Multitasking: Potential Threats to the the Art of Therapeutic Touch

Activity Summary

Required reading for all learners: Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes

This foundational session discusses the dramatic increase in technology in nursing over recent decades. Efficient documentation screens, coupled with enhanced safety mechanisms and easy data review, save time for the nurse. However, automated task lists and multiple data screens can create barriers and decrease the human element of nursing. Monitoring devices create distractions and dependence upon unfiltered data. This may raise the question of whether nurses are relying more on technology and less on therapeutic touch.

Objectives

Discuss two positive effects of increased use of technology employed at the bedside to improve patient outcomes.
Explore unintentional behaviors related to increased use of bedside technology as they relate to the nurse-patient relationship.
Implement strategies to improve therapeutic communication, presence and touch to enhance the nurse-patient relationship.

Continuing Education Disclosure Statement

Successful Completion

Learners must complete the entire activity and the associated evaluation to be awarded contact hours AND read Implicit Bias impacts patient outcomes. No partial credit will be awarded.

Accreditation

The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider number CEP 1036, for {contactHours} contact hours.

Disclosures

Any relevant relationship between an ineligible company and an individual with the ability to influence clinical content will be identified by the Nurse Planner within the activity. Any relevant relationship between an ineligible company and an individual with the ability to influence clinical content has been mitigated.

Accreditation refers to recognition of continuing education only and does not imply AACN, ANCC, or CBRN approval or endorsement of any commercial products discussed or displayed in conjunction with this educational activity. Activities with pharmacology hours are to assist the APRN in fulfilling the pharmacotherapeutic education requirements for licensure and certification renewals.

Activities meet the standards for most states that require mandatory continuing education for license and/or certification renewal. AACN recommends consulting with your own state board of nursing or credentialing organization before submitting your certificate of completion.

Refund Policy

Continuing Education Activities are nonrefundable.