Will Nurses Be Replaced by AI?
It is important to know the projected demand of your profession before you spend four (or more) years getting a degree that traps you into a dying field. As I wrote about in my most recent blog post, the nursing profession will continue to grow in the coming years as the demand for healthcare increases. Technology has always been a crucial tool in the medical field, giving us CAT scans, prosthetic limbs, and artificial organs to name a few examples. During the pandemic, we relied on the accuracy of technology to diagnose patients using telehealth and engineer vaccines that would be safe to distribute to the public. With the increased use of artificial intelligence in many different professions, the question becomes... Will Nurses Be Replaced by AI? One of the main duties of a nurse is to care for the patient- not only in the physical and practical way but tending to the emotional side of the healing process. Being a nurse requires empathy, which allows the patients to feel at ease. A