MARIANO MARCOS STATE UNIVERSITY

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Name of Student: Date Submitted:
Raralio, Xyla Cassandra Yasmeen Nicole P. November 6, 2022
Course Code/Title: NCM 100/TFN
Professor: Dr. Sabina L. Pariñas
Report Topic: Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing: A Model for Practice

Table of Contents

1. Rozzano C. de Castro Locsin

a. Background
b. Education
c. Career
d. Honors/Awards
e. Book Publications

2. Acceptance by the Nursing Community

a. Nursing Education
b. Nursing Practice
c. Nursing Research

3. Major Concepts of Locsin’s Theory

a. Person
b. Nursing
c. Health
d. Environment

4. Key Concepts of Locsin’s Theory

a. The Process of Nursing
b. Dimensions of Technological value in the Theory
c. Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing

5. Content Analysis of the Theory

6. Assumptions of Locsin’s Theory

7. Strengths
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8. Weaknesses

9. Conclusion

Rozzano C. de Castro Locsin

A. Background
 Born on May 25, 1954 in manila, Philippines
 His parents are Vicente Teves and Maria Luisa
Locsin.
 He came to the United States of America in 1984

B. Education
 Bachelor of Science in Nursing in Silliman University, Dumaguete, Phiippines
(1976)
 Master of Arts in Nursing in Silliman University, Dumaguete, Philippines
(1978)
 Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing in University of the Philippines, Manila,
Philippines (1988)

C. Career
 Assistant professor nursing in Silliman University (1978-1980)
 Nurse clinician in M. D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute,
Houston (1980-1981)
 Instructor IV in University of the Philippines (1982-1984)
 Staff Nurse in Goldwater Member Hospital, New York City (1984-1985)
 Supervisor of nurses in Goldwater Member Hospital, New York City (1985-
1988)
 Assistant director nursing in Goldwater Member Hospital, New York
City (1988-1991)
 Adjunct instructor in City University of New York, New York City (1988-1990)
 Assistant professor in Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton (1991-present)
 Board Directors Philippine Nurses Association, New York
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D. Honors/Awards
 Fulbright Scholar Award (Florida Center for International Exchange of
Scholars, Washington D. C. in 2000-2001)
 Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (Florida Atlantic University,
Boca Rota, Florida in 2003)
 Julita V. Sotejo Medallion of Honor: Lifetime Achievement Award University
of the Philippines (Nursing Alumni International Inc., Los Angeles, California
in 2003)
 Edith Moore Copeland Award for Excellence in Creativity or Founder’s
Award (Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing –
Idianapolis in 2003)
 Fulbright Alumni Initiative Award (Center for International Exchange
of Scholars, Washington D. C. in 2004-2006)
 Outstanding Alumni Award – Lifetime Achievement in Nursing Education (St.
Paul University of Dumaguete, Dumaguete City, Philippines in 2004)
 University Research of the Year – Professor, Scholarly and Creative Works
(Florida Atlantic University, 2006)
 Balik Scientist (Returning Scientist) Program (Department of Science and
Technology, Philippines in 2009)
 Academic Excellence Award (Philippine American Society in 2010)

E. Book Publications
 Advancing Technology, Caring, and Nursing (2001)
 Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing: A Model for Practice (2005)
 Technology and Nursing Practice (2007)
 A Contemporary Nursing Process: The (Un)Bearable Weight of Knowing in
Nursing (2009)
 Rozzano Locsin’s Technological competency as caring in nursing:
Knowing as process and technological knowing as practice (2015)
 Like a moth to a flame: Ebola and the culture of culture in Sub-saharan Africa
(2015)
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Acceptance by the Nursing Community

A. Nursing Education

Nursing students are taught to be technologically competent among many nursing

schools (Raman, 2015). Being technologically competent also means being caring. The
coexistence of this two interprets a harmonious means in enhancing the capability of
handling technologies and use that in caring the nursed one (Locsin, 2005).

In one of the dimensions of technological value, specifically the third one, technology
as mimicking human beings (cyborgs, etc.) are used to practice on to meet the demand for
human care practices. The second dimension also indicates how technologies as machine
technologies played a major role in enhancing the nursing curriculum (Locsin, 2005). For
illustration, nursing educators uses technologically delivered visual aids such as
powerpoints in order to capture the attention of the nursing students and teach them much
better than just the usual oral delivery.

B. Nursing Research

As the world continues to progress, the use of technologies become more apparent
in different fields (Klein, 2016). In the nursing field, Locsin’s theory is used for the nurses to
better understand what technology is and what it’s purpose towards the profession. In this
way, the nurses are able to relate with the advancement of technologies and have a positive
influence in their organization leading to them being technologically competent (Locsin,
2005).

In this century, the practices in nursing have become technologically-focused

(Western Governors University, 2021). This drastic change due to the use of technologies
will open up more opportunities for nurses to take not only to enhance nursing practices, but
will also address its impacts towards the discipline of nursing (Anon, 2016).

C. Nursing Practice

In practice, due to the apparent use of technologies, nurses have become more
dependent on technologies (Huston, 2020). However, with proper evaluation and training,
nurses are able to provide an enhanced quality care towards the person from moment to
moment (Locsin, 2005). The moment from Locsin’s theory assumptions indicates the time
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where the nursed one needs to be cared or the nursed one allows to be cared. In this way,
the nurse shall have the full understanding towards the patient. Thus, technology shall bring
the patient closer to the nurse.

Major Concepts in Locsin’s Theory

A. Person

Locsin (2005, as cited in the Nurses in the Digital World) defines a person as a whole
or complete being in the moment that continually grows and change as a response to
different personal conditions and experiences. He believes that a person is appreciated
through his attained date with the aid of technologies, not just an object in need of fixing.

B. Nursing

Locsin (2001, as cited in the Nurses in the Digital World, 2016) described the
function of a nurse to be challenged to be technologically proficient while responding to the
calls for nursing. Furthermore, he sated that technological competence is an expression of
caring that is only fulfilled with an expertise in handling technologies in the field. Thus, the
nurses act as the “midline” between the person and technologies, in order to fully know the
person and help them understand the role of technologies as a part of their care (DeJonge
et al, 2015).

C. Health

Locsin defined health as the “enhancement of humanhood,” allowing a person to

continually grow and develop from moment to moment. Its importance put emphasis on how
a person is unique and so with their health depending on their hopes and desires (DeJonge
et al, 2015).

D. Environment

The environment surrounds mainly on the technological world. Technologies allow

deeper and more specified insights in regards to a person’s health. Technological
competency allows a nurse to continually alternate from implementation and evaluation with
expertise in handling technologies (Nurses in the Digital World, 2016).
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Key Concepts of Locsin’s Theory

A. The Process of Nursing

1. Knowing. This is guided by technological knowing in which persons are

appreciated as a part of their care rather than objects of care. The nurse enters
the world of the person, thus, with the aid of technologies, magnifying the real
presentation of what is need to be checked. In addition, the person’s state is
dynamic and unpredictable that can change from moment to moment.

2. Designing. This is the planning of mutual care between the nurse and the person
that corresponds to the person’s desires as well as be responsive to meet the
demands of an effective nursing care.

3. Participation in Appreciation. The simultaneous practice of all these activities are

reflective to the cyclical process of knowing persons. This stage is where the
alternation between implementation and evaluation is present.

4. Verifying Knowledge. The continuous, circular process demonstrates the ever-

changing dynamic nature of knowing in nursing.

B. Dimensions of Technological Value in the Theory

1. Technology as completing human beings to replicate a part or whole of a person

such as in replacement parts, both mechanical (prostheses) or organic
(transplantation of organs) (Locsin, 2001 as cited in Krel et al, 2022).
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2. Technology as machine technologies such as computers and gadgets enhancing
nursing physical practice and education to provide the efficient nursing care
(Locsin, 2001 as cited in Krel et al, 2022).

3. Technologies that mimic human beings and human activities to meet the
demands of nursing care practices, such as cyborgs or anthropomorphic
machines and robots (Locsin, 2001 as cited in Krel et al, 2022).

C. Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing

1. Being technologically competent means that there is a harmonious coexistence

between technologies and caring in nursing (Locsin, 2001 as cited in Krel et al,
2022).

2. The harmonious coexistence of these concepts places the practice of nursing

within the context of modern healthcare (Locsin, 2001 as cited in Krel et al,
2022).

3. Technology eliminates the gap between the nurse and the patient. Thus, creating
a closer relationship between the two (Locsin, 2001 as cited in Krel et al, 2022).
4. The process of nursing is lived when technology is used to continually know
the person from moment to moment (Locsin, 2001 as cited in Krel et al, 2022).

Assumptions in Locsin’s Theory

1. Persons are cared by virtue of their humanhood (Locsin, 2017).

2. Persons are whole or complete in the moment (Locsin, 2017).

3. Knowing persons is a process of nursing that allows continuous appreciation towards

the person from moment to moment (Locsin, 2017).

4. Technology is aided to know the person moment to moment (Locsin 2017).

5. Nursing is a discipline and a professional practice (Locsin 2017).

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Content Analysis of the Theory

The major concepts of the theory illustrates that a person is believed to be more than
just an object. They are considered as whole whether sick or well. The nurse’s role is to fully
know the patient with the aid of technologies. The data acquired from these technologies
are utilized to care for the patient and not to complete tasks. As Locsin (2001, as cited in the
Nurses in the Digital World, 2016) stated, nurses have always depended on techniques and
tools in meaningful ways to achieve valued ends.

Weaknesses

One of the potential risks of the use of technology in nursing is that by its very
concept or nature. Technology requires a decontructionist or reductionist perspective of
persons as mere parts of objects. Meaning, it is easy for nurses to fall into the practice of
objectifications to the person or into the consideration of merely completing tasks (DeJonge
et al, 2015, as cited in the Nurses in the Digital World, 2016).

Strengths

Locsin’s theory is not only about being technologically competent in providing care
with the aid of technologies, but it also deepens the relationship between the nurse and
patient, thus, leading into an effective and efficient plan of nursing care.

This theory, out of most theories, is relevant and addresses the situation of nurses in
the modern healthcare world. Nursing practice requires nurses to be technologically
competent in order to provide an enhanced strategy to deliver care. At the same time,
nurses must still be rooted to human caring while adapting to the advancement of caring.

Conclusion

The theory defined how modern healthcare is implemented with the aid of
technologies. The advancement of technologies and its aid in the nursing practice greatly
influenced the delivery of care. The focus of care nowadays is to provide a patient-driven
care. This promotes active participation from the patient in the decision-making. The use of
technology in caring for patients should not create a gap in the nurse-patient relationship.
Instead, it should address this gap and foster a caring environment. The main focus of
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nurses is providing care with the aid of technologies, not on the use of technology in
providing care.

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