Question

Use the psychic skills and write a paragraph describing one specific thing you can imagine will be different due to technology/informatics in nursing 20 years from now.

Answer 1

There are many emerging technologies that will improve the future of nursing. In my point of view within 20 years from now there will be less invasive and more accurate tools for the diagnosis of the various diseases and treatment for them. Scanning technologies will be improved to higher extent to get the images of soft and hard tissues more accurately. Also vaccines for specific cancers are under study which will be a great contribution to the health sector. Vein finding tool will be a commom use in the hospitals in future which will help nurses to get accurate findings. Failure on IV insertion of needles to deliver the medication can be solved. Quick location of veins for deliver of the medication can be made easy. I think that the normal stethoscope will disappear within 20 years from now in hospitals and will be replaced with smart stethoscope. We can access the heart and lung sound via Bluetooth in our phone. Blood sugar can be detected by using chip monitors that is we get the laboratory on the tiny chip. Both the cost and time of people can be reduced. This will be more easy for nurses because they can get results easily than doing it manually. Patient monitoring system in the hospitals can made possible in few years from now. This will help to reduce patient fall rates in the hospitals by continually assessing the patient through videos. Electronic health records keeping will be possible in the mobile phones for easy accessibility to the health workers within few years. This can limits a good percentage of medication errors and care issues.