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Ethics and New Health Technologies: An Innovative Descriptive Analysis of the State of the Literature

Published:2022-11 Issue:4 Volume:28 Page:221-227
ISSN:1078-4535
Container-title:Creative Nursing
language:en
Short-container-title:Creative Nursing

Author:

Gietzen Luke J.¹,Ogilvie Sarah J.²,Steerling Emilie³,Houston Rebecca⁴,Nygren Jens M.⁵,de Ruiter Hans-Peter⁶

Affiliation:

1. College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Minnesota State University – Mankato, Mankato, Minnesota, United States.

2. College of Allied Health and Nursing, Minnesota State University – Mankato, Mankato, Minnesota, United States.

3. School of Health and Welfare, Halmstad University in Halmstad, Sweden.

4. College of Arts and Humanities, Minnesota State University – Mankato, Mankato, Minnesota, United States.

5. School of Health and Welfare, Halmstad University, Halmstad, Sweden.

6. Glen Taylor Institute for Family and Society, College of Allied Health and Nursing, Minnesota State University – Mankato, Mankato, Minnesota, United States.

Abstract

The exponential advancement of health technologies has led to an increasing need for awareness and critical thinking about the potential unintended consequences and ethical dilemmas that may arise from using new technologies. Unfortunately, many ethical issues arise post-implementation. Few researchers preemptively consider the ethical implications of health technologies. The current study located more than 24 million articles in PubMed that discussed common health technologies. Of these, 0.07% ( n = 17,816) articles deeply considered the technology's potential ethical implications. Critical thinking and ethics are the mainstays of nursing practice. Thus, critically thinking about the potential ethical implications of relevant technologies should be at the forefront of research; we contend that this is not common practice. We hope to shed light on this issue to remind researchers to think like nurses when researching new health technologies.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

General Nursing

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1891/CN-2022-0044

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