Alexa, I need to go to the bathroom???

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This might work, as long as Alexa doesn't experience patient care fatigue-Alexa," I didn't sign up for this, this was suppose to be fun".

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On 4/11/2019 at 2:20 PM, Daisy4RN said:

Assuming it works as intended!

Alexa, call the nurse ….for all your above reasons.....

Why do I see hospital admin eventually trying to factor Alexa into the staffing numbers somehow, justifying less help because now we have ‘Alexa’ to fill in the gaps?

Or maybe some already have. Why pay for an extra nurse when you can buy an annoying talking box to take up the nurse’s time try to explain how to use the darn thing to the patient?

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Specializes in Geriatrics, Dialysis.

Anybody with an echo device knows some or the useful features that would scare the living daylights out of me in that setting. They do "always listen" which means they record all conversation. Do you really want the powers that be to be able to pull up recorded conversations from a patients room to be used in a disciplinary process against a nurse?

The wonderful intercom feature is nice to talk to somebody across the house, but I sure don't want the "drop in" to be used by management to bark new orders to nursing staff from a distance.

While they may not intend to use the technology like that at the beginning, how long do you really think it would be before some manager figures out that they can use "drop in" to issue inane instructions from wherever they happen to be?

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Specializes in oncology, MS/tele/stepdown.

I posted about this before. They are trialing it at one of the hospitals in my health system; fortunately, when I was working there, it wasn't functional because of "internet issues" but there were signs in every room encouraging patients to use it. A complete waste of money. You already have a callbell system - why do we need this?

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On 4/11/2019 at 11:03 AM, Daisy4RN said:

This sounds like a horrible idea to me. Just more money wasted so the hospital can look good. This program would be abused and like Tricia stated nurses can still only be in one place at a time and will prioritize accordingly. There is no way that mgmt. is going to get involved to go fix a TV, give a med etc. but they will definitely use this against the nurse for bad customer service, bad time management etc. We had phones on tele unit for techs to call for "urgent" rhythms, then calling bc leads are off etc. they started calling Charge or NM (went up the chain) when nurses either were not answering or responding in a timely manner. So did NM go check pt, nope, just calling to tell nurses to go do it and scold for not already going and/or not answering. Also, what about privacy issues. Amazom/Google stores a lot of our data and use it for other purposes as well. Not a good idea, IMO, for a number of reasons!

I remember watching the CBS national news just the other day and they had a story about how people at these companies (like Amazon) will actually listen to the recordings that Alexa makes. Not just the things you ask it. Alexa is an active always running recording device they can use anytime. Apparently for customer service issues but I am not a trustful person by nature.

I can see it now bunch of faceless people hiding in the shadows trying to make “costumer service” better...

recording 1: Alexa I want a hamburger call the dietary services

recording 2: Alexa I’d I need pain meds call nurse!

recording 3: ....Mr. Jones you have hemorrhoids bigger then any I have seen in my 20 years of practice...

no way that could be HIPAA friendly. Lol

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Specializes in LTC, home health, critical care, pulmonary nursing.

They need to save the money they’re spending on this nonsense and spend it on safe staffing.

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