Nursing

Rise of the Robots: Is Artificial Intelligence a Friend or Foe to Nursing Practice?

Much like other aspects of health care, nursing has become increasingly saturated with technology over the past several decades. Existing technology has advanced nursing in many ways and contributed to patient safety but at the cost of decreasing nurse-patient interaction. As health care technology progresses to the inclusion of artificial intelligence (AI), the future impact on nursing and direct...

Leveraging Electronic Health Records and Machine Learning to Tailor Nursing Care for Patients at High Risk for Readmissions.

BACKGROUND: Electronic health record-derived data and novel analytics, such as machine learning, offer promising approaches to identify high-risk patients and inform nursing practice.

Knowledge Discovery With Machine Learning for Hospital-Acquired Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections.

Massive generation of health-related data has been key in enabling the big data science initiative to gain new insights in healthcare. Nursing can ben...

The Purpose of Bedside Robots: Exploring the Needs of Inpatients and Healthcare Professionals.

Robotic systems are used to support inpatients and healthcare professionals and to improve the efficiency and quality of nursing. There is a lack of s...

Supporting the use of standardized nursing terminologies with automatic subject heading prediction: a comparison of sentence-level text classification methods.

OBJECTIVE: This study focuses on the task of automatically assigning standardized (topical) subject headings to free-text sentences in clinical nursin...

Systems and Precision Medicine in Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections.

Necrotizing soft tissue infections (NSTI) are multifactorial and characterized by dysfunctional, time dependent, highly varying hyper- to hypo-inflamm...

[Application and Research of Digital Twin Technology in Safety and Health Monitoring of the Elderly in Community].

In this paper, through the research of digital twin technology, combined with the application of vision sensor, artificial intelligence chip and deep ...

[Visual diagnosis : between medical education and advances in artificial intelligence].

The electrocardiogram, chest x-ray, and skin lesion interpretation are a diagnostic process that applies image analysis. Knowledge and sufficient clin...

NimbleMiner: An Open-Source Nursing-Sensitive Natural Language Processing System Based on Word Embedding.

This study develops and evaluates an open-source software (called NimbleMiner) that allows clinicians to interact with word embedding models with a go...

[The robotic assistance system.].

The aging of the population is a reality common to the entire Western world, while the time available and human resources are limited. According to ma...

Artificial intelligence: Essentials for nursing.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a transformational technology that will affect all healthcare providers. This article offers an overview of basic AI c...

How artificial intelligence is changing nursing.

This article provides an overview of artificial intelligence (AI), including how AI algorithms and robots are altering the nurse's role and the challe...

[Artificial intelligence and nursing care: reflections in psychiatry].

A key government priority, artificial intelligence (IA) in healthcare is a real opportunity for nursing professionals. Faced with the daily difficulti...

[Construction and analysis of muscle functional network for exoskeleton robot].

Exoskeleton nursing robot is a typical human-machine co-drive system. To full play the subjective control and action orientation of human, it is neces...

Extracting Alcohol and Substance Abuse Status from Clinical Notes: The Added Value of Nursing Data.

We applied an open source natural language processing (NLP) system "NimbleMiner" to identify clinical notes with mentions of alcohol and substance abu...

Recovery Medication from Free Text to a Structured Form.

We studied methods to convert medical prescriptions in free text to a structured form for pharmacy insructions and planning nursing activities in hosp...

Implementation of a Tool for the Assessment of the Frail Elderly in a Robotic Agent.

The concern for aging, chronic illness, and dependence is relevant in today's society. The Nursing discipline is responsible for its approach to care....

Evaluation of a Companion Robot for Individuals With Dementia: Quantitative Findings of the MARIO Project in an Irish Residential Care Setting.

The current study focuses on the short-term effect of MARIO, a social robot, on quality of life, depression, and perceived social support in persons w...

Monitoring of Patient Blanket Coverage using 3D Camera Data.

Nurses in a hospital are responsible for the monitoring and care of a large number of patients. Regularly checking if patients are sufficiently covere...

Bed-Exit Prediction Applying Neural Network Combining Bed Position Detection and Patient Posture Estimation.

The work of a nurse involves tasks that can lead to serious accidents with a single mistake or miss, and thus nurses are exposed to high stress. In pa...