University of Colorado, College of Nursing, Aurora, CO.
University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania Injury Science Center, Center for Injury Research Prevention at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA.
Nurs Outlook. 2020 Nov-Dec;68(6):698-710. doi: 10.1016/j.outlook.2020.04.007. Epub 2020 Jul 1.
Sensor technologies for health care, research, and consumers have expanded and evolved rapidly. Many technologies developed in commercial or engineering spaces, lack theoretical grounding and scientific evidence to support their need, safety, and efficacy. Theory is a mechanism for synthesizing and guiding knowledge generation for the discipline of nursing, including the design, implementation, and evaluation of sensors and related technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning. In this paper, three nurse scientists summarize their presentations at the Council for the Advancement of Nursing Science 2019 Advanced Methods Conference on Expanding Science of Sensor Technology in Research discussing the theoretical underpinnings of sensor technologies development and use in nursing research and practice. Multiple theories with diverse epistemological roots guide decision-making about whether or not to apply sensors to a given use; development of, components of, and mechanisms by which sensor technologies are expected to work; and possible outcomes.
用于医疗保健、研究和消费者的传感器技术迅速扩展和发展。许多在商业或工程领域开发的技术缺乏理论基础和科学证据来支持其需求、安全性和有效性。理论是综合和指导护理学科知识生成的机制,包括传感器的设计、实施和评估以及人工智能和机器学习等相关技术。在本文中,三位护士科学家总结了他们在 2019 年护理科学促进理事会高级方法会议上的演讲,该会议讨论了在护理研究和实践中扩展传感器技术科学的理论基础,探讨了传感器技术发展和使用的理论基础。具有不同认识论根源的多种理论指导着是否将传感器应用于特定用途的决策;传感器技术的预期工作组件和机制;以及可能的结果。