Digital transformation needs to measure nursing and midwifery care demands and workloads

Hovenga, Evelyn J.S.; Lowe, Cherrie

doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-816977-3.00003-4

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“…Victoria G. Vivilaki 1 , Catherine Chronaki 2,3 , Stavroula Barbounaki 1 , Elena Petelos 4,5 cultural norms may hinder change, resulting in a low level of utilization of digital technologies. Less than one in ten households in the European Union has no access to the Internet, whereas affordability represents access and equity issues; not all social groups are equally able to harness the potential of digital technologies, with 74-87% and lower at subnational-level able to do so, with intrapopulation variations across the European Region 3 .…”

Section: Accelerating the Digital Transformation Of Community Midwifery During The Covid-19 Pandemicmentioning

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“…In some cases, lack of any prior knowledge of familiarity with such tools compromises their ability to personalize care and actively support women. Furthermore, organizational processes need to be redesigned by exploiting the latest digital technologies so that they satisfy women’s and midwives’ service requirements, seamlessly and effectively to levels that exceed their expectations 4 .…”

Section: What Are the Challenges To Accelerating This Digital Transformation?mentioning

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Accelerating the digital transformation of community midwifery during the COVID-19 pandemic

Vivilaki¹,

Chronaki²,

Barbounaki³

et al. 2021

Eur J Midwifery

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Section: Accelerating the Digital Transformation Of Community Midwifery During The Covid-19 Pandemicmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: What Are the Challenges To Accelerating This Digital Transformation?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Accelerating the digital transformation of community midwifery during the COVID-19 pandemic

Vivilaki¹,

Chronaki²,

Barbounaki³

et al. 2021

Eur J Midwifery

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“…Other challenges to the development and implementation of digital sources in midwifery care include the commonly occurring high workload, which affects the ability of midwives to acquire professional knowledge about how to best support women and their families in the use of digital sources. Hence, it has been asserted that organisational processes should be redesigned to meet the digital technology needs of women and their families, as well as those of midwives ( 10 ). It is therefore critical to invest in digital midwifery and digital development as doing so would benefit a wide range of populations, from women and their families to midwives and midwifery care organisations—and, of course, our communities at large ( 11 ).…”

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Healthcare professionals' perceptions of a digital parental support, Childbirth Journey, constructed as a serious game—An intervention study

Bäckström

Knez

Larsson

2023

Front. Digit. Health

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BackgroundGlobally, the digital sources developed and available in antenatal care differ, and infrastructure challenges may impede the further development of such sources. Challenges accompanying digital developments can include the commonly occurring high workload, which affects healthcare professionals' ability to acquire professional knowledge about how to best support parents in using digital sources. Including healthcare professionals in the development process of digital sources may increase the likelihood that such sources will be adopted and employed by these professionals in their future care work. Therefore, the present research explored healthcare professionals' perceptions of the digital support intervention Childbirth Journey, which was constructed as a serious game for expectant parents.MethodsData were collected through semi-structured focus-group interviews with 11 midwives at antenatal, labour and postnatal clinics as well as with child healthcare nurses. Prior to the interviews, all participants were provided the intervention, Childbirth Journey, which is a serious game in a mobile application format consisting of two distinct parts: (1) a story-driven game and (2) a Knowledge Portal. The data were analysed using phenomenographic methods.ResultsThe perceptions of Childbirth Journey by healthcare professionals, midwives and child healthcare nurses are presented in four descriptive categories: extended professional support, trustworthy contents, diversity or individuality, and both appealing and in need of development.ConclusionsCurrent study revealed that Childbirth Journey may be utilised as a digital support for parents, allowing healthcare professionals to offer a digital solution as a complementary support to standard, face-to-face meetings with caregivers. However, the research results also revealed that some elements of Childbirth Journey must be improved, thereby representing a main contribution of this study: insights into how to better develop digital tools under the umbrella of health care. Thus, we conclude that in order to create sustainable and safe digital care solutions that function as trustworthy professional supports instead of technical products that risk harming users, the perspectives of both patients and healthcare professionals should be considered in the exploration and development of these solutions.

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Digital transformation needs to measure nursing and midwifery care demands and workloads

Cited by 2 publications

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Accelerating the digital transformation of community midwifery during the COVID-19 pandemic

Accelerating the digital transformation of community midwifery during the COVID-19 pandemic

Healthcare professionals' perceptions of a digital parental support, Childbirth Journey, constructed as a serious game—An intervention study

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