Nurses experience on modern technologies and patient safety within Gerontology Care in Finland : Literature Review

Abstract

Gerontology is a growing field of nursing especially with the rapid increase of aging population in most of the developed countries. This has made modern technology in gerontology also known as gerotechnology essential in taking care of elderly patients. The adoption of gerotechnology has rather been slow with most of the old generation showing low integration of technology mainly because of little knowledge on the same. The aim of this research is to analyze the nurses’ experience on modern technologies and patient safety within the Gerontology sector using the case of Finland. The specific objectives included analysis of the modern medical technology surrounding gerontology in Finland; find out nurses’ experiences of modern technology within Finland and safety of modern technology regarding gerotechnology in Finland. Data used for literature review of this study was collected from article databases such as: Elsevier,OnlineWiley Google Scholar,Cinahl, and other online manual searches. The manual online searches were done using different key words and phrases to unearth relevant articles which contained adequate data on the topic of research. On the findings, the study identified that regarding the introduction of modern technology in gerontology care, the number of healthcare professionals was reduced thus needing only few nurses with the skills to operate the devices.