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por Courtney Schutter hace 11 años

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Advancements in technologies in nursing

Technological advancements in the field of nursing have led to significant improvements in patient care and medical procedures. Technologies such as computed tomography (CT) scans revolutionized medical imaging, enabling detailed virtual slices of the body.

Advancements in technologies in nursing

Advancements in technologies in nursing

occuring advancements

Real time locating systems (RTLS)
streamlinging patient's flow and bed management
monitoring equiptment maintenance cycles
tag and track medical equiptment
uses

radiofrequency identification tags

ultrasound tags

infrared technology tags

Handheld PDA
Brand: Allscripts pocket library
look up reference material
order entery
virtual capture
charge capture
write prescriptions
Electonic Health records (EHR)
flags test results
became manditory in January 2014
coordination between members of care team improve
alerts to potential drug interactions
instant access

past advancements

telesurgery
allows specialized surgeons to be accessed world wide
ability to preform surgery and not be at the location
surgical robot is used
computed tomography (CT/CAT)
(virtual slices) of specific areas of the scanned object
refered to as an X-ray CT
created by Godfrey Hounsfield
surgical robot
minimally invasive
computer assisted surgery
created by Dr. Yik San Kwoh