Review of Article: Benefits of Wearable Technology to Provide Efficient Nursing Care

Wearable technology is a device that can wear on the body and allow for screening and monitoring of a person. This wearable technology has an impact on health care and it is the future of nurses. Nurses are the frontline caregiver to patients. Healthcare practitioners will be able to attend to even more patients with more efficiency, significantly reducing patient wait times for care and treatment after using wearable technology. This technology help nurses from a different perspective, this can help in monitoring vital signs, help in neurological disorders patients, diabetic patients, wound care, maternal and infant monitoring, heart patients and many more. These devices give benefits for personal use to nurses, for contact with other health workers and for self-care also. Wearables give benefits to nurses for providing efficient nursing care, the benefit for early recovery of patients, detecting the early sign of an emergency, reducing further complications and reducing the death rate.