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Technology's seductive power.

J A Erlen
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Advances in technology suggest new possibilities in health care and have become equated with state-of-the-art health care. The promise of technology has the potential to act as a seductive force luring nurses and other health care providers to use it and luring patients to request it. If nurses become so enchanted with technology, the patient as a person may be overlooked. By focusing on caring and the patient's experience of being ill, nurses can avoid being seduced by and dependent upon the use of technology when providing patient care.

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J A Erlen. Technology's seductive power.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7870482/

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