{"id":51267,"date":"2022-04-21T13:46:10","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T11:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/?p=51267"},"modified":"2022-04-21T13:46:39","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T11:46:39","slug":"moxi-a-hospital-robot-helping-to-combat-nurse-burnout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/2022\/04\/moxi-a-hospital-robot-helping-to-combat-nurse-burnout\/","title":{"rendered":"Moxi, a hospital robot helping to combat nurse burnout"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Moxi<\/a>, a hospital robot, is helping to combat nurse burnouts at Mary Washington Hospital in Fredericksburg, Virginia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moxi, which is about a 6-foot-tall, offers assistance to the nurses as it ferries supplies, medication, lab samples, and individual items via the halls from one floor to another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After two years of fighting Covid-19- related burnouts, nurses express that the robot is a welcome development and relief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Abigail Hamilton, a former ICU and emergency room nurse, “there’s two levels of burnout: There’s ‘we’re short this weekend’ burnout, and then there’s pandemic burnout, which our care teams are experiencing right now.”  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moxi has been one of the specialized delivery robots developed recently to reduce the strain on nurses and other health care personnel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before the covid-19 pandemic, almost half of the US nurses complained about the appropriate work-life balance in the hospital. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The emotional strain of witnessing patients die and co-workers infected on a large scale and fear of contracting Covid has increased the burnout feelings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This nurse burnout feelings have gone international following the pandemic. Specifically, about \u2154 of the US<\/a> say they’ve considered leaving their jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The shortage of staff in some hospitals caused by the pandemic creates higher wages for temporary travel nurses and permanent staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This and others have paved the way for more robots in hospitals. Moxi is at the forefront of the trend<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moxi is now taking objects to patients in emergency rooms as Covid-19 protocol and pandemic kept family members away from bedsides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nurses can send the robot tasks through text messages. And it can be used to transport things too large to fit in a tube system, such as lab samples or IV pumps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While some nurses have expressed that robots are a threat to their professions, some believe that robots have a long way to go before they can replace humans. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For instance, Moxi needs help in some basic tasks, like pressing a specific elevator button.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another vein, there have been security concerns about robots. Last week, a security firm, Cynerio, expressed that exploiting a vulnerability could make hackers take remote control of Tug robots or even open patients up to privacy violations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, no comparable bugs have been seen in Moxi robots. Even the firm behind Moxi is taking more steps to ensure its safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Generally, the easy things Moxi does makes a difference. It saves nurses about 30 minutes they need to go from the 5th floor to the basement to take medication that won’t go via the pharmacy tube system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Further, taking post-hour meals for patients has been one of Moxi’s popular tasks. Since 2 Moxi robots started working in Mary Washington Hospital in February, they’ve returned workers about 600<\/a> hours of their time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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