Benefits of technology for nurses and residents in a nursing home

Abstract

It is important to obtain information on the benefits that nurses, and residents can get from the use of technologies because technologies are getting more value and importance nowadays. Hence, the purpose is to identify the benefits that nurses, and residents get from technology in nursing home. Descriptive literature review has been selected for this research. All together 7 articles and academic journals were selected for the detail findings of this study. Search engines like CINAHL EBSCO host, science direct and international e-search were used, and they are valid databases of Lapin amk. Both residents and nurses are equally getting benefits from technologies. Benefits for residents includes safety, security, therapy, rehabilitation, prevention from fall, sleep management, time, and cost effectiveness. Whereas benefits for nurses includes reduction of burden, enhancement in performance, medicine management, effective communication, and helpfulness in educational purposes. In this study, it has been observed that the technology is considered to be an important factor which affects the outcomes of care, satisfaction of residents and nurses as well as nurses performance. Keywords like technology, nursing home, benefits, residents, caregivers, and nurses were used.