Care innovations in practice – experiences and recommendations from the “Cluster Zukunft der Pflege”
Care innovations – especially in conjunction with digitalisation and the potential of AI – are seen as a key lever for both raising the quality of care and meeting the growing challenges of the shortage of skilled workers. The question of which factors can promote or hinder the development, selection and implementation of care technologies is the task of the “Future of Care Cluster”, which is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The entire socio-technical care system (people, organisation and technology) in which the technology is to be used is being considered.
Using examples from the Nursing Innovation Centre (PIZ) and from four Nursing Practice Centres (PPZ), this book presents the phases of the technology development process and the implementation of nursing innovations in various nursing settings in everyday nursing practice, poses and discusses the questions of social, ethical and economic relevance as well as the importance of practical benefits and acceptance. At the same time, conditional factors for successful care innovations are analysed in order to improve the nursing benefits for those in need of care and the benefits for carers.
In short: a profound insight into the “Zukunft der Pflege” workshop with numerous practice-orientated findings for the use of digital innovations in everyday care and pointers for further development and research needs.
Voices of the authors on the anthology
Dr. Kathrin Seibert (Image rights: Kathrin Seibert)
‘Research and development projects should be aware of the regulatory, technical, procedural, social and ethical conditions for the success of care technology projects in order to create optimal conditions for their success and to develop needs-based and beneficial technologies for care.’
Maxie Lutze (Image rights: Maxie Lutze)
‘Digital transformation needs participation. Involving people in need of care, their families and care staff in the evaluation of digital care applications is beneficial. Let's bring practice, science and administration into a structured dialogue through transparent structures and governance.’
Prof. Dr. Heinz Rothgang
Dr. Regina Schmeer (Image rights: Hanover Medical School)
‘They'll grow into it! Or will they? - With increasing digitalisation in healthcare, the expectation that nurses will expand their skills in this regard is also growing. However, there is often a lack of structured and guided support, as described in our book chapter.’
Stefan Walzer (Image rights: Stefan Walzer)
‘Who can benefit from which care technology, when and where? And how exactly do we define and evaluate these benefits? Analysing the entire innovation process - as attempted in this book - can help us get closer to an answer.’
Tobias Krick (Image rights: Tobias Kramer)
‘The evaluation of digital care technologies and in particular the proof of effectiveness in care practice currently represents a significant but surmountable challenge for the advancement of care innovations.’
Isabel Schön (Image rights: Isabel Schön)
‘Interdisciplinarity is constitutive for the CzdP. The research ethics question ‘How do we want to conduct research? Our contribution ‘Research, Ethics, Formalism’ refers to such a process - which can serve as a basis for further reflection and practice.’
Dr. Katrin Grüber (Image rights: Katrin Grüber)
‘A self-confident approach to care innovations is necessary and possible. This requires places and time for joint dialogue. The FreTiP tool (Questions for ethical reflection on digital technologies in nursing practice) supports such processes.’
Ursula Deitmerg (Image rights: PPZ Nuremberg)
‘Just how challenging it is to implement technical innovations in practice often only becomes apparent when a wide variety of hurdles jeopardise success. The high level of complexity requires knowledge, motivation and practice, which must be supported by professional and expert guidance.’
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Zerth (Image rights: KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt)
‘The discussion of care innovations addresses aspects of the appropriate selection of technology, suitable implementation in care settings and, ultimately, conditions for transferability. Here, the anthology attempts to provide impetus and uncover further questions.’
Ronny Klawunn (Image rights: Ronny Klawunn)
‘We agree that technology should support carers, but not replace them. What we don't agree on is how exactly we can design the care of the future in which carers, care practice and new technology interact in a meaningful way. This book is intended to contribute to this debate.’
Tobias Kley (Image rights: Tobias Kley)
‘Digitalisation in the healthcare sector currently resembles a 400m hurdle race. You can only just see the next bend, can only guess at the destination and there's always something in the way. This volume can provide a slipstream to make it easier to overcome the next hurdles and focus more clearly on the goal.’