Creative
Anecdote
Say you or
someone you know gets admitted into the ICU. In your private room, you see a
few things that you have never seen in a hospital room. All of a sudden, a
monitor that’s in the corner of your room turns on and there you see your nurse
staring back at you. At first you can’t decide if whether or not that is
actually her. Then she starts talking and you realize she can hear you too! That’s
what the tele-ICU is. It is not designed to scare patients by any means however;
the thought of it can be a little intimidating.
This brings me to
introduce my argumentative claim. I think this technology is going to better
our hospitals around the country. It has amazing potential in many aspects. It
has the ability to be a second set of eyes for many patients at a time, always
watching and waiting. When an alert of any kind goes off, the tele-ICU nurse
looks inside the patients room with the camera and sees what the cause of this
alarm is, and from there the tele-ICU can decide what steps to take to fix the
problem. This system has a faster response time than regular nurses because
they don’t have to run around the hospital to get to the patients room. All
they need to do is turn on a camera. Because of this, mortality rates have gone
down in hospitals that have the tele-ICU. Furthermore, it is a great teaching
tool for new nurses to the field.
I will also
address the problems associated with this technology and its direct effect on
nurses themselves. No one single thing can fix EVERYTHING, so I will also be
addressing this in my argumentative paper.
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