Dear mouse,
Robots make work easier. I should know. Our carpet cleaner is a robot. I am spared from pushing and pulling vacuum cleaner.
In Japan where robots substitute mostly for routine jobs, they make up for scarcity of labor or experts with robots.
Unlike in the Philippines where there are nurses for every god-knows-how-many-in-a-square-meter, Japan can not cope with the demand for these health care providers as its population age. It started recruiting foreign nurses. Lately, they introduced Japanese robots. Japanese robot nurses.
RIBA, the friendly robot nurse, was designed by the state-run Riken research center to help assisted caregivers
The robot nurse eliminates at least two people who are needed to operate a hoyer lift or to bodily move a patient. A hoyer lift is used to transfer patients from bed to chair and chair to bed.
The nurses of my father-in-law used this equipment whenever he was put to bed when he was still alive and confined in the skilled facility due to alzheimer’s disease .
He weighed more than two hundred lbs and was very combative and so nurses did not want to go near or touch him . I had to be there to soothe him and give him the assurance that he was safe. He was a retired medical doctor and he must be familiar with some incompetence of nurses.
I believe however that robot nurses can replace the TLC of the Filipino nurses.
The Ca t
