Technology advances have led to the explosion of different wearable devices usage in daily life by common people. However, it has also made a great impact on healthcare systems. The developers of the wearable devices planned to use them to simplify human lives, to track the activity of sportsmen, to improve entertainment abilities, and to expand human opportunities at first. However, the greatest potential of such techniques in healthcare has pushed the devices for expanding the sphere of their use. Today, doctors and nurses use such types of self-care monitoring devices and wearables to make their work more accurate and to track patients health data no matter where a patient is at the moment. Healthcare industry uses such devices as fitness wristbands, smart watches, headbands, smart shoes, patches, and others to have a full time control over patients health changes to provide in time help, which is vital. The purpose of the paper is to show what the devices can be useful in order not to advertise companies producing the wearable accessories, but to improve medical treatment methods and to show how nurses can use this technology to promote healthy lifestyles and compliance with self-care monitoring.

Analyzing the contemporary studies and conducting an integrative review can help to evaluate the impact of wearables on the medical system. For example, Stanford Medical University and VitalMedicals have provided a research study of using Google Glass in surgery and BioPatch by Zephyr in health tracking . Twenty Stanford residents participated in two surgeries using Google Glass in one case and without it in another case. The survey estimated the results of the surgery outcomes.

The results of Stanford University research have shown the advantage of using Google Glass for both doctors and patients. Most of the participants admitted that Google Glass intensified their situational vision, was effective in tracking vital indicants , was user-friendly , and gave an opportunity to control patients safety. The BioPatch can monitor patients twenty-four hours per day, which goes beyond attention a nurse can provide.

Therefore, wearing devices benefit both doctors and patients. Doctors get more opportunities to treat patients in time and in a proper way and patients can receive the most appropriate medical help without unnecessary stress and money loss. The smartphone applications show data and help to gather and save information in order to check changes. All the information is connected and can be easily used; for example, such applications as Fitbit and other tracking tools allow looking through personal results and comparing those with other users as well. Such kind of database can help to create a strong structure to monitor the diagnosis dependency on geography, age, sex and other. Thus, building the health service communities unites people with the same interests, for example, weight management, and simplifies the collection of the information.

Nurses can use such knowledge to promote healthy lifestyle and illness prevention by reasoning on the results of using wearables and without it, as nurses have more opportunities to approach patients individually, which accompanies the community health promotion. Wearable devices can supply the nurses and doctors with self-monitoring information even when a patient is not at the hospital or has no time to visit a physician. It can help to prevent illness and reduce costs on unnecessary analyses. Nurses use their high education and experience to encourage people to gain information about health. Also, nurses can guide patients to consider reliable resources or provide information by themselves. Using the health promotion framework constantly, nurses will give both a proper health treatment and educational part and share the experience to control illness of a person and the whole population.

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