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Nursing won't be automated soon, but automated systems will be used for things that nurses used to do (with predictably worse results).
by mbg721 5y ago
Nursing won't be automated soon, but automated systems will be used for things that nurses used to do (with predictably worse results).
- lghh 5y agoNurses do a lot of menial tasks that they are overqualified for. Could those not be freed up by automation so that nurses can do the high-skill tasks they are uniquely qualified to do? I think you're right in the sense that I expect we won't shoot to automate the menial tasks first, and instead will let our hubris guide us to automate the high-skill tasks. But speaking optimistically, there's a lot of productive automation that can happen. Heck, a lot of it has already happened via digital record keeping.
- weatherlite 5y agoBut much of those menial tasks are quite difficult to automate - changing IVs, bed sheets, patient clothes, bandages, diapers etc etc...I don't think AI/robotics is anywhere close. However, it is possible that much of the menial work will be delegated to lower paid "nurse aides" that don't really need much medical knowledge , while the real therapeutic work start being automated by machines and algorithms. Thus salaries will be squeezed downwards, which in the end is what the system wants obviously.