Background: In healthcare environment the wearable health devices like smartwatches, fitness trackers, and biosensors are emerging as important tools for real-time patient monitoring and enhanced clinical decision-making. These technologies hold high potential for the enhancement of patient care, particularly by offering continuous data for vital signs and physical activity. Nevertheless, the success of these devices depends on significantly upon the frontline health professionals who implement them especially nurses. Despite of these advantages, few nurses have faced obstacles in their acceptance of a wearable health devices from technology complexities, low training levels, and disparate organizational support. Though some centers support the acceptance of these gadgets, uncertainty remains concerning the scheduling of wearable technology within regular practice. An understanding of the experiences and perceptions of the nurses is the key to spanning the chasm between technological advance and practice and to guarantee that such innovation ultimately contributes to substantive patient outcome enhancements.
Methods: This research employed a descriptive-correlational quantitative design, gathering data from 200 nurses using structured questionnaires administered through Google Forms. The survey aimed to explore nurses’ perceptions of wearable health devices, specifically examining their effects on patient care, clinical decision-making, and overall workflow efficiency.
Result: The findings indicate that nurses are a little ambivalent with regard to wearable health devices. They don’t think they are too hard to use, but they’re not really easy either. Most acknowledge that they struggle to use the devices independently, which indicates that there is definitely a need for more practical training. While some assistance and resources exist from their organizations, it’s not always apparent whether or not there’s a high degree of commitment to adopting this technology to the fullest. Nurses well understand the positive benefits that these devices have the potential to make to patient care, but concerns with usability, insufficient training, and conflicting signals from leadership are keeping adoption wider in their daily practice.
Conclusion: In conclusion, although nurses see the promise of wearable health devices, their successful implementation is impeded by usability issues, insufficient training, and ambiguity regarding organizational commitment. Improving training and more robust institutional support will help overcome these obstacles so that wearable technology can be fully incorporated into nursing practice.
Keywords: Wearable Health Device, Challenges, Nurses, Technological Barriers, Training Deficits, Organizational Support.
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