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By: Gesa George
Globally healthcare structures are challenged with the lack of health care professionals, in particular nurses. The decline in the nursing staff is more often than not attributed to an ageing population, multiplied demand for fitness care services, and shortage of qualified nurses demanding running situations have also multiplied the physical and emotional needs and notion of burnout, main to attrition amongst nurses. Technological advancements have caused the use of robots as potential companions to complement understaffing and supply powerful care to sufferers. Robotics in nursing is a multidisciplinary field that explores techniques, technologies, and ethical considerations in the creation of robots designed to assist and cooperate with healthcare professionals such as physicians, nurses, and other healthcare providers during medical procedures. The nursing robots are especially designed to carry out activities to supplement nurses paintings at hospitals, long time centers and homecare. Those robots are socially and physically assistive and can be classified into humanoids and nonhumanoids robots together with telepresence robots. Robots in nursing can perform logistical and onerous physical duties, fight loneliness and inactiveness in the older populace, or can be assigned to recurring responsibilities along with measuring patients important signs and symptoms. Robotics has the capacity to relieve some of the body of workers demanding situations by augmenting and assisting nurses in their roles, however, the effect of robotics on nurses is an understudied topic and restrained literature exists.
Key words-robotics, functions, blessings, demanding situations , future
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