Current Health Care Trends and Issues

Current Health Care Trends and Issues

This Journal focuses on the technology you have experienced in your professional practice or educational experiences. Please take time to review the readings of this unit.

• What are current technological trends in health care?
• Compare current technological trends with what you have experienced in practice
• How has technology changed the delivery of nursing care?
• What are the benefits and disadvantages of the current technological presence in health care?
• What changes and new innovations do you predict happening in the future of health care?

Also, please answer the following questions in your response:

• Are most people too technologically dependent?
• Is technology taking away the hands-on aspects of nursing?
• Will technology decrease the need for nurses?
• What is your favorite new technology?

Your finished Journal entry should be, at minimum, eight (8) well-developed paragraphs with more than four (4) sentences per paragraph.

Journal Requirements

As this Assignment is a Journal entry and not a formal paper, it may at times be difficult to follow the organization, style, and formatting of the APA 6th Edition Manual. Despite this, your Journal Assignment should:

• clearly establish and maintain the viewpoint and purpose of the Assignment;
• Follow the conventions of Standard American English (correct grammar, punctuation, etc.);
• be well ordered, logical, and unified, as well as original and insightful;
• use the APA Manual, 6th edition format for crediting source, and for content, organization, writing style, and writing mechanics recommendations.