Overview of how health technology monitoring vital signs has changed over a period of time : A literature review
Mintah- Asare, Antoinette (2020)
Mintah- Asare, Antoinette
2020
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2020062219190
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2020062219190
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The introduction of health technology in hospital settings has improved patients’ care, monitoring of vital signs, caused a decrease in medical errors, and increased the safety of the patients.
This literature review provides an overview of how health technology has impacted in the monitoring of vital signs over the decades. The literature review was conducted by selecting articles from three different databases; Sage, Science direct, and Google Scholar articles. 13 selected articles were assessed and evaluated by the author. Finally, articles were analyzed and evaluated by inductive content analysis.
The results from this study portrays that, patient assessment, patient observation, patient data, real-time monitoring of patients, the national early warning score and early warning score are the safety rules for monitoring patients’ vital signs with the help of health technology.
The result shows that technology plays an essential role in monitoring patients’ vital signs. The monitoring of patients’ vital signs over the years has tremendously improved due to the advancement in health technology. This has improved the quality of healthcare delivery, and a decline in medical errors increased the safety of the patient and bridged the gap in terms of communication between patients and nurses.
Health technology plays an important role in the healthcare sector by bridging the gap between patients and healthcare workers in terms of communication, monitoring of vital signs of patients, diagnosing, and treatment of an illness. Monitoring of the various vital signs of patients is an essential part of nursing assessment and patient monitoring. The impact of health technology plays an important role in the patients’ safety and ensures smooth care given by healthcare workers.
This literature review provides an overview of how health technology has impacted in the monitoring of vital signs over the decades. The literature review was conducted by selecting articles from three different databases; Sage, Science direct, and Google Scholar articles. 13 selected articles were assessed and evaluated by the author. Finally, articles were analyzed and evaluated by inductive content analysis.
The results from this study portrays that, patient assessment, patient observation, patient data, real-time monitoring of patients, the national early warning score and early warning score are the safety rules for monitoring patients’ vital signs with the help of health technology.
The result shows that technology plays an essential role in monitoring patients’ vital signs. The monitoring of patients’ vital signs over the years has tremendously improved due to the advancement in health technology. This has improved the quality of healthcare delivery, and a decline in medical errors increased the safety of the patient and bridged the gap in terms of communication between patients and nurses.
Health technology plays an important role in the healthcare sector by bridging the gap between patients and healthcare workers in terms of communication, monitoring of vital signs of patients, diagnosing, and treatment of an illness. Monitoring of the various vital signs of patients is an essential part of nursing assessment and patient monitoring. The impact of health technology plays an important role in the patients’ safety and ensures smooth care given by healthcare workers.