Advancement in technology plays a very essential part in all types of care. It is designed to support professional nursing practice, interdisciplinary integration, evidence-based practice, and clinical decisions (Troseth, 2009). This helps ED nurses to gain global healthcare trends to standardize the quality of care. Technologies offers the means to reduce or limit errors and adverse events such as medical errors, miscomunication, delays in treatment, failure to rescue, nosocomial infection, fall, and complication from immobility (Nadzam & Mackles, 2001; Troseth, 2009). The ED staff nurses also stated that the lack of improvement or lack of upgrade in technologies and equipments at the emergency department delimit their opportunity to enhance or update their nursing skills, especially in the latest information technology.
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Nurses also believed that the lack of tools or equipment in the hospital affect the delivery of quality health services. The problem is that they have to look for equipment from another ward if the institution cannot sustain the numbers of the equipment needed that also delay the process. They further mentioned that they have only one set of Laryngoscope and one bag of valve mask. In most cases, nurses have to run to the nearest ward to avail the needed equipment. This situation causes ED staff nurses’ exhaustion which decreases their energy to perform
Nurses also believed that the lack of tools or equipment in the hospital affect the delivery of quality health services. The problem is that they have to look for equipment from another ward if the institution cannot sustain the numbers of the equipment needed that also delay the process. They further mentioned that they have only one set of Laryngoscope and one bag of valve mask. In most cases, nurses have to run to the nearest ward to avail the needed equipment. This situation causes ED staff nurses’ exhaustion which decreases their energy to perform