Case-Assignment: Communication Devices
Case-Assignment: Communication Devices
Case-Assignment: Communication Devices
Week 7 discussion Use of Personal Communication Devices in Patient Care Settings How can the use of the nurse’s personal communication device(s) impact patient care positively and/or negatively? What are the ethical and legal implications? What does the professional literature say about how communication devices can support safe nursing practice?
A portable communications device is a hand-held or wearable device. For example, the walkie-talkie is a device that is hand-held when in use, and wearable when not in use. Portable telephones (cellular telephones) are also carried, or worn, on a belt, or in a pocket.
Portable devices have also become usable when worn. For example, most walkie talkies come with a voice operated transmit capability so that they will work hands-free, when used with a wearable microphone. Many telephones such as the Motorola Star Tac also feature an earpiece that allows the phone to be worn and used hands-free. The Star Tac was the first wearable cellular telephone, in the sense that it was the first that could be used while being worn.[citation needed]
Portable computers are computers that can be hand-held, used on a lap, or worn in a pocket, belt, or the like, such as personal digital assistants (PDAs). PDAs are almost always worn (pocket or belt) when not in use, but some are also usable when worn (e.g. with eyeglass-based displays as well as electric seeing aids such as eyetap devices).
The Portable class of device exists at one end of a continuum:[citation needed]
Portable: hand-held or wearable;
Mobile: vehicular mounted (e.g. an automobile radiotelephone);
Base station or desktop units: building-mounted.
