call me a luddite, but the first three paragraph of this nyt article on the nursing shortage sends shivers down my spine. it portends the end of nursing as a viable career!!
the physician inventor of penelope the or robot is hoping that his one-armed robot will replace the nurse who hands the surgeon the instruments, freeing the nurse to give postoperative care !
you don't have to pay robots wages, health benefits, they don't complain about the pt load or organize unions. management must be salivating.
i don't think that they will be good pt advocates, comfort a dying child's family, you know all the good things we do that keep us working.
Oh please please dear god gimme a robot. I could input who gets walked and for how long, everybody gets good HS cares, everybody gets fed on time, baths get done, weights get done, no breaks all at the same time, no husbands/sick kids, actually get call lights for me, people get turned on time, people show up and on time work hard and report. Hey wait! That's me!
Just had this mental image of a robot repeatedly moving in a half circle hitting a surgeon saying "your instrument....click...instrument.......click.....instrument".
We could always reprogram it so that when certain staff members approach it waves it's arms and yellls "Danger Will Robinson Danger"
HomeNurse4kids, LPN
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holding my gut laughing...........:roll
No, not just about the robot performing a disimpaction:eek: , but about your signature line........
Frodo failed! Bush has the ring! hahahaha crack me up
can picture him up on top of the towers with a magic wand and jumping on a winged dragon to fly across the land.
Ok, so maybe OP isn't the only one with too much time on their hands.