I, for one, welcome our new robot caregivers.
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@George-K said in I, for one, welcome our new robot caregivers.:
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I'm actually down with this, provided that the guy isn't bullshitting about the intended use. More time with (human) caregivers and patients is a good thing.
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Except that it's utter bullshit. It's about reducing headcount and personnel expense.
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@Mik said in I, for one, welcome our new robot caregivers.:
Except that it's utter bullshit. It's about reducing headcount and personnel expense.
Bingo.
And the headcount they want to reduce is housekeeping and nurse's aides. There is nothing that a RN should be doing, that this thing can do.
Meds, IV infiltration, patient assessment, documentation, etc., can't be done by this thing. And if you're running a hospital where you're paying somebody $40/hr to pass out water, you're running a shitty hospital.
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Other than running errands, picking things up, delivering, what else is this thing good for? A fancy Roomba?
Can it bathe a patient? Change a Chux?
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@George-K And how many of them would you need in a shift? Seems like having too few of them will degrade patient care, as he waits for the moxie to bring them something, which could take too long, depending on the queue of things the robot has to do. OTOH, if you have too many moxies, they wind up running into each other, creating traffic jams, fighting in the supply closet . . .
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On the other hand, robots do have their place on patient care floors. Many hospitals have been using the PIXIS robots for some time for pharm deliveries.
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They could probably do cleaning tasks quite well.
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Maybe the more difficult enema cases could be theirs, too.
Omnes vulnerant, ultima necat.
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@jon-nyc said in I, for one, welcome our new robot caregivers.:
Maybe the more difficult enema cases could be theirs, too.
As you wsh.
