Technologic competence as caring in critical care nursing.

The article describes technologic competence as caring in critical care nursing, a framework grounded in the perspective of nursing as caring. The achievement of technologic competence is an exercise in the process of knowing the wholeness of persons in the moment. Nurturing persons toward well-being is the focus of nursing. Technology, caring, and competence are core concepts that constitute the framework of technologic competence as caring in critical care nursing. Technologic competence epitomizes critical care nursing and assumes an indispensable position in contemporary nursing practice.