“They may forget your name, but they will never forget how you made them feel,” said by Maya Angelou. Nursing is providing care, the prevention of illness and injury, the remedy of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of patients, and the passion towards individuals, families, and communities. The responsibilities of a nurse is to perform physical exams and health histories, provide health advancement, counseling, and education, and interpret patience information and make critical decisions about needed actions. Nursing is the work of the heart and it makes a huge difference in patients’ lives every day.
Florence Nightingale was the founder of professional nursing in England. At such …show more content…
Genetics, genomics, robotics, and online health records were some of the many advancements in technology used in nursing today. Genetics and genomics deal with the makeup of DNA and chances to contact a disease that could possibly be inherited from parents or grandparents. Robotics are being used more often to provide less invasive and more comfortable experience for the patient, for the reason being that they provide smaller and precise diagnosis.
Online health records are past health records of the patient such as doctors’ appointments, hospital visits, physicals, and any diseases you may have. All these new technology inventions help provide a safer, insightful, and better outcome for all patients.
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Technology in nursing has come a long way in how it used to be and what it is now.
Nursing has become more comforting, less hostile, and with better precision and accuracy than it was in the past. The use of technology will only to continue to grow over the years with …show more content…
The future of technology in nursing is unlimited. For instance, new inventions such as digital diagnostics, the cloud, and ultra-fast scans are changing the impact of nursing for the better. There will be increase of jobs by the year of 2020 according to the University of Chicago, and by this action the shortages of nurses will be reduced. Numerous of ideas of the future technology are in the process of being approved by FDA.
Digital diagnostics were invented for people who do not have the transportation or cannot be transported to a doctor’s office. Neurotrack is an example of digital diagnostics which uses a type of software called Alzheimer’s diagnostic test to detect problems with the brain by evaluating eye movement. The cloud is another improvement in the future of technology in nursing. The cloud was invented due to the percentages of high-risk security and medium-risk breaches. Cloud also provides many benefits for under-developed rural areas and medical providers. There is an estimate to be about 944 cloud services used by different