Advancements in technologies in nursing

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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