Technology and learning: making the connection
The pace of technological change in nursing is accelerating and to stay current with its many facets takes a commitment to lifelong learning. The continuing advances in technology are paradoxically making it possible to streamline treatment programs to the individual needs of patients better than ever before, and this will only accelerate in the years ahead (Bartholomew, Curtis, 2004). From nursing workstations equipped with their own Internet addresses to enable greater levels of telematics-based patient care (Sensmeier, 2010) to the development of state-of-the-art simulators to teach new nursing techniques (Harlow, Sportsman, 2007) technologies are creating nothing less than a learning revolution in nursing today.