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raccoon

(31,111 posts) Tue Mar 31, 2020, 09:54 AM Mar 2020

Robotic nurses. I'm not kidding. Is anybody working on them?

I would think the Japanese would be, in light of their aging population.

I realize no one is going to be able to come up with one in a matter of weeks, but it sounds like a good idea. Especially in ICU. And surgeries Are being done remotely. I mean where a person is working the robot arms.

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Robotic nurses. I'm not kidding. Is anybody working on them? (Original Post) raccoon Mar 2020 OP

This message was self-deleted by its author mucifer Mar 2020 #1

Yes, the Japanese Miguelito Loveless Mar 2020 #2

I've seen them before Renew Deal Mar 2020 #3

The mission and scope of care of nursing includes things that cannot be done by robots. WhiskeyGrinder Mar 2020 #4

We have them already, for years, and they really reduce the hands-on labor needs librechik Mar 2020 #5

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Miguelito Loveless

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2. Yes, the Japanese

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Tue Mar 31, 2020, 09:57 AM

Mar 2020

have been working on them for about two decades.

Still a ways off.

Renew Deal

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3. I've seen them before

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Tue Mar 31, 2020, 09:58 AM

Mar 2020

They have great bedside manners.

WhiskeyGrinder

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4. The mission and scope of care of nursing includes things that cannot be done by robots.

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Tue Mar 31, 2020, 09:58 AM

Mar 2020

So yeah, you can certainly invent an automated room that measures vitals, dispenses medications and maybe even moves a patient around, but that's not nursing.

librechik

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5. We have them already, for years, and they really reduce the hands-on labor needs

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Tue Mar 31, 2020, 01:59 PM

Mar 2020

That pole thing next to your bed which is holding your IV bag is also holding a computer which keeps track of your vital signs, the rate of fluids and oxy going through the tubes and output of electrodes attached to your body.

This cyber equipment is awesome and surely amounts to robotic servants for the nurses and techs. They don't look like people. Still they are robots, IMO.

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