Memorandum "Work and technology 4.0 in professional care"

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The following memorandum “Work and Technology 4.0 in Professional Care” represents the joint positioning of the signatories for the sustainable, long-term design and implementation of technical innovations in the field of nursing care. The starting point for this statement is an understanding of care as interactive work for and with people that requires special organisation and valuation. The undersigned agree that nursing staff should benefit more from technology than in the past. To this end, they must be involved in the design of the technology that concerns them and their actual practical work. This is the only way to ensure that employees can benefit from the increasing use of technology in professional nursing practice. So far, there has been empirical evidence of inadequate integration of professional care in technology development and introduction processes. In this way, the innovative potential of new technologies in care work is not being utilised with a view towards the future. For successful organisation of Work 4.0 in nursing, consistent, interdisciplinary and targeted development, introduction and impact assessment of sociotechnical innovations together with professional nursing are required. The use of technology in nursing work must have a preventive and continuous supporting effect in the interest of health and the “good work” of caregivers as well as in the interest of the quality of life of care recipient.