Nursebeware: NurseBots?

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I was going to write an article on how robots are becoming increasingly popular in the hospital for assisting the health care professionals.  As I peruse all the articles on these robotic entity I became increasingly annoyed at the reference to these robots as “Robot Nurse”, “Nurse bots and “Nursing aid robots”.

[medgadget] Nurse Robots by 2010?
British scientists and engineers want to replace nurses with 'nurse bots' that will be able to function independently or alongside 'robo-surgeons'.

Read more: http://www.informaticsnurse.com/forums/nursing-nursing-informatics-news/18325-nurse-robots-2010-a.html

04/8/2010  Robot nurse escorts and schmoozesthe elderly
Pearl flirts with old men. But women like her too. Her wide eyes and smiling lips lend her face an expression that hovers between vacuous gaiety and humble servility. But don’t let the vacant look fool you. Pearl is one sharp cookie.
Read more: http://www.thematuremarket.com/SeniorStrategic/Robot_nurse_escorts_schmoozesthe_elderly-5260-5.html

"Toyota doesn’t see these machines serving only as nurses."

Read More http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/01/toyota-sees-robotic-nurses-in-your-lonely-final-years/#ixzz0kU6kkhgv


If having read the above articles and you feel as I do.  I would suggest all nurses to make comments to any article that refers to these robots as Nursebots!

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