High-Tech Nursing

Today with all of the technology out in the world it’s comforting to know that some of it is going to better protect our health. Nurses today can use so many high-tech devices to precisely measure a patient’s oxygen level, deliver exact amounts of medicine through a vein, and document patient care electronically. These are just a few of the many different things that nurses can do with high-tech items. Years ago to check if a patients oxygen level were dropping they would look for a blue color in the lips or fingernails to day the use a “pulse oximeter” which is put on the finger and measures the amount of oxygen in a persons blood. About thirty years ago one of the first high-tech machines was the infusion pump which was used to deliver a certain amount of liquid to a persons veins today they are smaller, more accurate, and smarter. Some specially trained nurses can assist surgeons in the operating room to endoscopic vein harvesting this is where a nurse uses a high-tech tool to take a large vein out of the leg they use it to reroute blood around a blocked artery in the heart. To perform this procedure before a surgeon would make an incision from the groin to the ankle. With all the technology in the world nurses are more that just nurses they are computer technician. Many new nurses practice on mannequins or video “games”.