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Pros And Cons Of Concerns For Patient Safety

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Concerns for Patient Safety and the Use of Technology

The use of technology in nursing practice has streamlined patient care, but, has also left a gap for patient's private healthcare information to be compromised. Moving forward with new technology has revealed pros and cons, and unfortunately the cons may be discovered because of and error.

Many hospitals have policies in place regarding the use and prohibition of using personal devices to transmit patient information. There is a possibility of patients' personal information being compromised when personal devices do not have the proper protection and firewalls used for the protection of private information. My hospital uses a program "Smartweb" that uses the hospital server
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