NR 361 WEEEK 7 DISCUSSION

Use of Personal Communication Devices in Patient Care Settings (graded) How can the use of the nurse's personal communication devices impact patient care either positively or negatively? Are there ethical and legal implications? Locate an article and share a brief summary of that article with your classmates. Respond This section lists options that can be used to view responses. Collapse All Print View Show Options Responses Responses are listed below in the following order: response, author and the date and time the response is posted. Sort by Read/Unread Sort by Response Sorted Ascending, click to sort descending Sort by Author Sort by Date/Time* Collapse Mark as Read Use of PCD in Patient Care Settings Deborah Scott Email this Author 2/15/2015 2:17:54 PM The article I chose, discussed a new trend emerging which was BYOD (bring your own device), discusses the pros and cons of using personal smart phones, or other devices, while on the job. While many employ these devices, it can play havoc with IT, trying to keep not only EHRs safe when someone accesses them from a smart device, but if that device were to become hacked or left unattended. Many utilize these devices to enhance their patient care, making sure that medication errors don't happen, accessing critical information or labs, or many other such ways of going throughout their days. There is discussion on utilizing these for patient call lights, or having them automated into a nurse's own smart phone for messages from a patient, but then you would need to safeguard each one of these employees phones for HIPPA compliance and safety regulations. This is definitely where nursing is going, but with it's own set of problems. We recently had an only-Spanish speaking teen on my unit, and while it was fine to take him into a separate room to use the Cyracom to conduct the shift assessment, or interviews, for quick questions, it seemed a bit much. Luckily, one of my new