Monitoring Patients Through Electronics

Bean, Margaret A.; Krahn, Frances Ann; Anderson, Barbara L.; Yoshida, Mabel T.

doi:10.1097/00000446-196304000-00011

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“…As the nurse authors of this paper noted, while they enjoyed this cartoon, they were also anxious about what it implied: namely, the automation of rather than in nursing (p. 66). 38 …”

Section: The Equivocal Nurse/technology Relationshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Troubling distinctions: a semiotics of the nursing/technology relationship

Sandelowski

1999

Nursing Inquiry

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I consider the discursive practices that have served conceptually and ontologically to trouble the boundaries between nursing and technology: between nurse/human/subject and machine/non-human/object. Nursing and technology have been semiotically related largely by two processes: (a) by the metaphor that depicts nursing as technology and (b) by opposition, or as not like and even in conflict with technology. Less frequently but no less significantly, nursing and technology have been semiotically linked (c) by the metaphor that depicts technology as nursing and (d) by metonymy, or by word or picture juxtapositions of nursing with technology. The troubling distinctions between nursing and technology suggest yet another reason why the construction of difference continues to elude nursing.

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“…As the nurse authors of this paper noted, while they enjoyed this cartoon, they were also anxious about what it implied: namely, the automation of rather than in nursing (p. 66). 38 …”

Section: The Equivocal Nurse/technology Relationshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Troubling distinctions: a semiotics of the nursing/technology relationship

Sandelowski

1999

Nursing Inquiry

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“…Monitoring of coronary‐care units has been reported by Day in Kansas City (50), and by Zoll in the Beth Israel Hospital in Boston (51). Monitoring of patients has been successfully used in the shock unit of the Los Angeles County General Hospital (52), in the Texas Institute for Rehabilitation and Research at Baylor University, in the Special Care Unit of Roosevelt Hospital in New York City (53), and in the University Hospital, New York University Medical Center (54). Some of these monitoring units may already employ process‐control, but to date the device appears to have had greater use in experimental biomedicine—for example, as a control for an artificial heart (55).…”

Section: Process‐controlmentioning

confidence: 99%