Robots In Hospitals - New Challenge For Nurses and Health Care Professionals

Three insect-like robotic arms reaching into the chestpressures and opportunities for the healthcare
cavity of the patient lying on the surgery table humworkforce to renew itself through new training and
quietly while... the surgeon is sitting in a nearbycareer planning.
remote-control booth, carefully directing the delicateThe inevitable trend is already visiting our hospitals in a
operation from a distance with a 3-D precision thatform that will certainly impact the way our nurses and
was not possible before.healthcare professionals will be trained and employed
Or, here is the 5-feet high porter robot with blinkingin the near future: robots are taking over an increasing
lights, moving slowly on its rubber wheels through thenumber of functions, ranging from critical surgical
crowded hallways of a hospital... it is quietly waiting foroperations to the delivery of various items around a
the elevator to arrive so it can deliver the blankets it'shospital.
carrying to the nurse station on the top floor...Robots, whether used in delicate surgery or just to
Such scenes will become increasingly frequent in thecarry goods around the hospital, are here to stay. This
hospitals of the future.trend will eventually both present new challenges for
But guess what? Such a development wassome of our nurses as well as provide them with new
prophesied over a hundred years ago by the earlyand exciting venues to ratchet their credentials to new
pioneers of the 19th century political economy - that inheights of professional excellence.
a capitalist market, any given set of manual skill willThat's why in our hi-tech future, the education and
eventually get replaced by machines for higheron-the-job training of our nurses will be more important
productivity and profits. And that creates both newthan in any other period in history.