Who Really Makes the Bed? Uncovering Technologic Dissonance in Nursing
Marguerite J. Purnell · Holistic Nursing Practice · 1998
Technologic dissonance in the practice arena is demonstrated in the use of nonnursing technologies that are present in but technically incongruent with a nursing environment. Technology in nursing is not necessarily nursing technology. The article traces the influences of technologic dissonance beyond the reductionist purview of the medical model to their source in design and engineering philosophies. The vision of technologic consonance in nursing may be realized in the influence and expression of the caring nurse in the design, engineering, ownership, and use of nursing technology.