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Hospitals across Washington state continue to struggle with staffing levels, and some are getting creative with potential ways to lighten the load for nurses.
A Spokane hospital has welcomed a robot named Moxi to its care team.
It's about 4 feet tall, it moves around the hospital on its own, and its main purpose is to help give nurses more time for patient care.
"Our nurses were spending, on average, 70 minutes out of a 12-hour shift moving equipment from here to there, getting supplies, taking specimens somewhere,” said June Altaras, executive vice president and chief quality, safety, and nursing officer for MultiCare Health Systems.
“A human being doesn't need to do that,” she said.
A Spokane hospital has welcomed a robot named Moxi to its care team.
It's about 4 feet tall, it moves around the hospital on its own, and its main purpose is to help give nurses more time for patient care.
"Our nurses were spending, on average, 70 minutes out of a 12-hour shift moving equipment from here to there, getting supplies, taking specimens somewhere,” said June Altaras, executive vice president and chief quality, safety, and nursing officer for MultiCare Health Systems.
“A human being doesn't need to do that,” she said.
Robot joins the ranks at Spokane hospital
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..."The bot announces itself with cartoon-ish robot noises and then speaks to staff, using phrases like, “I’m here to pick something up.”
Experts say these kinds of helper bots seem promising, but a lot hinges on whether nurses like them and find them useful.
Nurse Dana Oswald works at MultiCare Deaconess hospital. She said Moxi will decrease the amount of running around she and her colleagues do.
“I think everybody is pretty excited to be able to have something run errands for us, so we’re not running back and forth and putting extra duties on our nurses that could be designated to the robot,” Oswald said during the first few hours of the bot being introduced.
Overall, Nilsen with the NSF said it’s likely that the presence of robots in hospitals will increase in the future.
And she said there’s work being done on bots that can take on more patient interaction tasks, like feeding or assisting people with limited mobility in using the bathroom.
The pandemic has led to robots being thought of in different ways, Nilsen said."
..."The bot announces itself with cartoon-ish robot noises and then speaks to staff, using phrases like, “I’m here to pick something up.”
Experts say these kinds of helper bots seem promising, but a lot hinges on whether nurses like them and find them useful.
Nurse Dana Oswald works at MultiCare Deaconess hospital. She said Moxi will decrease the amount of running around she and her colleagues do.
“I think everybody is pretty excited to be able to have something run errands for us, so we’re not running back and forth and putting extra duties on our nurses that could be designated to the robot,” Oswald said during the first few hours of the bot being introduced.
Overall, Nilsen with the NSF said it’s likely that the presence of robots in hospitals will increase in the future.
And she said there’s work being done on bots that can take on more patient interaction tasks, like feeding or assisting people with limited mobility in using the bathroom.
The pandemic has led to robots being thought of in different ways, Nilsen said."
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