Becker's Healthcare November 1, 2023
While automation holds the lucrative promise for many fields of removing mundane tasks from workloads, some nurse leaders are hopeful — but questioning — if emerging technology will do the same in their field.
Particularly in the face of a national nurse shortage with more than 275,000 additional nurses required to meet demand by 2030, automation could be a solution to free nurses’ time, allowing them to attend to patients in other, more direct ways.
At the same time, over-automating and leaving nurses out of the conversations that happen during the development and before the deployment of new technologies could hurt a profession that already struggles with too few nurse educators, high turnover rates, and inequitable workforce distribution.
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