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Abstract: This article clarifies Locsin's (2015) Theory of Technological Competency as Caring in Nursing and furthers its theoretical development as relevant to situations which express caring in nursing. Co-creating moments is nursing transpiring as 'knowing persons as caring.' The dynamic nursing process events of technological knowing, mutual designing, and participative engaging occur within the Universal Technological Domain (UTD), the continuous, unending dynamic of knowing persons as caring. Technological competency as an expression of caring in nursing sustains, supports and values caring persons through mutually-satisfying demonstrations of co-creating moments in nursing.
Keywords: Co-creating moments, knowing persons as caring, universal technological domain (UTD), technological competency as expression of caring in nursing.
he middle-range theory of Technological Competency as Expression of Caring in Nursing (Locsin, 2005), acknowledges the harmonious coexistence of technological proficiency and caring in nursing as distinct and fundamental concepts in nursing practice. Within this coexisting engagement is technological competency expressed as caring in nursing.
Purpose
The purpose of this article is to advance the idea of co-creating moments as nursing occurring in knowing persons as caríng'ftiúiin the Universal Technological Domain (UTÖ) (Locsin & Purnell, 2015). This idea is grounded in the theory of Technological Competency as Expression of Caring in Nursing (Locsin, 2005). Cocreating moments in nursing occur in the practice of technological competency as caring in nursing. Emerging co-creative and momentary encounters are within the UTD, the continuous dimension of an unending and ever-changing dynamic of knowing persons as caring in nursing. It is within the context of this encounter that mutually-satisfying human caring expressions can be forged. (See glossary.)
Human dependency on increasingly sophisticated forms of technology is a contemporary reality. Human progress tends to be judged in the context of technological aims of efficiency to the exclusion of any larger meaning. Purnell and Locsin (2007) discussed the appeal of technology and the fascination, even the seduction that it continues to generate. The charm of technology's "miraculous" mien has become the primary reason for its powerful grasp on humanity.
Technology is sometimes understood in the context of cause and effect relationships. This view of technology compromises naturalness, however, and casts our understanding of universal truths In a binary frame, i.e. from conceptions of either/or, such as "black or white," "good or bad,"...