APA Healthcare informatics
We are living in the data mining age. Provide an example on how data mining can turn a large collection of data into knowledge that can help meet a current global challenge in order to improve healthcare outcomes.
APA style. 150 words minimum. One reference minimum within a 5 year span. ( I already attach the article that is the reference )
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Robotic Nursing in health Care Delivery
R. SreeRaja Kumar
Associate Professor, School Of Nursing Science and Research, Sharda University, Grater Noida, Uttar Pradesh
ABStRACt
Nursing robots are getting into the people life gradually because of the huge assistance they can provide
both to patients and nurses. Human nurses can have peace of mind. Their jobs are secure but a little help has
come to the rescue to do most of the boring nursing tasks for them. Robot nurse helps nurses in hospitals.
Larger robotic machines can be used to carry-out laborious physical tasks like moving patients, and smaller
interactive robots are being used to combat loneliness and inactivity in the elderly population. An increasing
elderly population paired with an insufficient amount of healthcare workers able to care for it makes
revolutionary inventions like nurse robots incredibly helpful.
Keywords: Robot, Robotic Nurse Assistant, Giraffplus, Cody, Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Corresponding Author:
R. Sree Raja Kumar
Associate Professor
School of Nursing Science and Research
Plot No: 32, 34, Knowledge Park-III
Sharda University, Grater Noida, Uttar Pradesh- 201306
Phone: +919646531203
Email: paulsree82@gmail.com
INtRoDuCtIoN
The word robot derived from the word Robota
which means compulsory Labor. Robot is a machine in
the form of a human being that performs the mechanical
functions of a human being but lacks sensitivity1.
The Nursing robot system is designed to serve
bedridden patients by performing simple services
Such as operating electrical appliances or bringing
patient’s bedside according to the patients spoken
request. She has face recognition (camera), voice
recognition (microphone) arms and hands. She talks
(speaker) with the patient, doctor and nurses in different
human languages1.
Human-like robots are already being utilized as
supplemental healthcare workers in elderly homes
across the world. Larger robotic machines can be used to
carry-out laborious physical tasks like moving patients,
and smaller interactive robots are being used to combat
loneliness and inactivity in the elderly population2.
As an ageing society is becoming a challenge for
more and more countries, the development of non-
human nurses will be essential to cope with the lack of
human caregivers. In the future, robots will assist older
people at home, in hospitals and foster homes. One of
the robots’ main benefits is that they are comparably
cheap labor. Moreover, there are more retired people
than people who work. As a result this will lead to an
increase of pension and consequently cheap nursing staff
will be essential to handle supply and demand and to
make sure that nursing will remain affordable2.
Additionally, nursing robots will take on physical
demanding work like carrying or moving people.
Especially, when nursing immobile or handicapped
people, the assistance of robots will be a great relief for
nurses and caregivers. An increasing elderly population
paired with an insufficient amount of healthcare workers
able to care for it makes revolutionary inventions like
nurse robots incredibly helpful3.
RoBot
A-reprogrammable, multifunctional, manipulator
designed to make material , parts, tools or specialized
devices through various programmed motion for the
performance of a variety of tasks.
DOI Number: 10.5958/0974-9357.2018.00086.7
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International Journal of Nursing Education, July-September 2018, Vol.10, No. 3 149
Characteristics of Robot
Mobility: It possesses some form of mobility
Programmability: It can be programmed to accomplish
a large variety of tasks. After being programmed, it
operates automatically.
Sensors: able to sense the environment and give the
useful feedback to the device.
Mechanical Capability: Enabling it to act on its
environment rather than merely functions as a data
processing or computational device (a robot is a
machine).
Flexibility: It can operate using a range of programs and
transports material in a variety of ways.
law of Robot: There are three Laws of the Robot which
were recommended by Issac Assimov’s
First law: A robot may not injure a human being or
through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
Second law: A robot must obey order given it by
human beings, except when such orders would conflict
with the first law.
third law: a robot must protect its own existence as
long as such protection does not conflict with the first or
second law.
types of Robots:
RIBA: (Robot for Interactive body assistance) RIBA is
the first robot that can lift up or set down a real human
from or to bed or wheelchair.
Robotic health Assistant: A robotic care giver can
handle the laundry and household chores, while the
patient is sleeping and the patients awakes would be
greeted by kind humanlike voice.
If the patient ambulatory, the robot can assist with
getting the patient moving. Many elderly patients take
multiple medicines allowing for mistakes in taking the
right dose at night time.
A caregiver robot could make sure that medicine
requirement is met. For those failing eyesight, the robot
could read to them4.
Giraffplus: Giraffplus consists of a network of sensors
which can measure blood pressure or detect if someone
falls. The data then interpreted in term of activities,
health and well being, such as if the person is relaxed or
need to go to bed. Even can trigger alerts or reminder to
a health care provider4.
Care-o-Bot 4: These Robots provides the social
assistance by offering stimulating and engaging in
empathic interaction, they increasing social connectivity
which prevents social isolation and loneliness.
Cody: Cody is robotic nurse designed to give bath to
an elderly. These robots are programmed to apply gentle
pressure while washing patient as a solution both to the
embarrassment of receiving bathing help from another
human as well as to the anticipated increase in demand
of nursing services for the elderly4.
hybrid Assistive limb: (hAl) Hybrid assistive limb
(HAL) which is robotic exoskeleton that could greatly
improve the mobility of elderly or disabled people who
wear it4.
Robotic Nursing Assistant: (RoNA SYSteM):
RONA system has developed for a human-safe, heavy-
lifting that is useful in any clinical environment. It is
an autonomous robotic nursing assistant capable of
helping health care providers maneuver and lift patients
weighing up to 500 pounds5.
Definitions of Robotic Nursing: Robotic nursing is
the use of autonomous mobile robots mainly designed
and programmed for performing tasks related to nursery
aiming to assist (but not replace) nurses in hospitals, care
facilities or even homes for a better prevention, and rapid
treatment and medical care of people especially elderly
and physically disabled ones. In the actual meantime,
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150 International Journal of Nursing Education, July-September 2018, Vol.10, No. 3
robot nurses are generally used for performing several
routine tasks such as collecting blood sugar and pressure
levels1.
Functions of Nursing Robot:
z Making up for cognitive decline (for example,
reminding patients to drink, take a medicine or
attend an appointment). Elderly people often need
to take multiple medications and noncompliance
often frequently leads to problems6.
z Enabling patients and caregivers to interact more
effectively, thereby reducing the frequency of
personal visits required6.
z Collecting data and monitoring patients, some
emergencies (such as heart failure and high-blood
sugar levels) could be avoided6.
z Assisting people with domestic tasks – many give
up independent living because arthritis leaves them
unable to cook, clean or use the washing machine
or the microwave6.
z Robot that can lift up or set down a real human from
or to bed or wheelchair. This bear can lift a patient
from standing position or from the floor, transfer a
patient to a wheelchair, carry a patient from point A
to B, and turn patients in bed6.
z Robots serve as a communication tool if an older
adult can’t (because of low vision or dementia, for
example) or doesn’t want to learn to use the latest
machine, they can simply ask the robot to serve that
function. Imagine: “Robot, call my daughter,” and
the robot makes the connection with Skype or Face
Time-type technology6.
z Robots reminds to take medications, go to
appointments, eat, exercise, and anything else
Relevant to each individual person because people
make lists but too often they forget to check them6.
z Robot offers endless patience Eg:- When a person
has dementia, they often ask the same question over
and over. Most humans lose patience answering 5,
15 or 40times. A robot doesn’t6.
z Robotic nursing will be used as a platform for
patient education as well. In hospitals, outpatient
settings, and at home, patients will be able to access
hundreds of videos outlining medication uses,
side effects, disease management, support group,
emotional support hotlines, and all at the blink of
an eye in any language6.
z Robots will be able to help with discharge planning
and procedures. They will be integrated into all
hospital technologies and monitors so that we can
earlier and more accurately detect signs of patient
de compensation. Thus, patients will see improved
health outcomes7.
z Robotic nurses will have the ability to triage
patients in clinics, emergency departments, and
via Tele-health services in order to streamline care
and provide standardized approaches to symptom
management with far fewer resources7.
z Robot nurses will help us to schedule tasks during
our nursing shift and prioritize our care with the
click of a button. Charting will become less of a
burden and less time-consuming for nurses because
most will be automatically delegated to AI7.
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CoNCluSIoN
The development of medical welfare robot is not
necessarily harmful rather than it can be promoted since
it used in providing health care services are beneficial to
people with disabilities and incurable diseases. It is an
important issue in nursing practice to recognize and live
with advanced sciences.
ethical Clearance: No ethical clearance has been taken
as it is not research study.
Source of Funding: Self
Conflict of Interest: Nil
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