Men in Nursing 2024
Future Tech
Cool inventions that should exist!
We asked our Men in Nursing 2024 panel the following question: What technology does NOT currently exist that would make your job as a nurse easier? Here is what they said.
Ali Al-Masri, Olive View Medical Center
A vest a nurse can wear that has multiple mechanical arms for multitasking.
Misak Anyan, USC Verdugo Hills Hospital
A venous catheter allowing accurate continuous glucose monitoring. Existing monitors are not accurate enough for inpatient use and insulin management.
Richard Conrad, Adventist Health White Memorial Montebello
An AI-driven virtual sitter that frees up the time and manpower needed for human physical safety attendants. Automating some of the safety components would be a huge win for everyone.
Adrian P. Dacanay, Kaiser Permanente South Bay Medical Center
A handheld or wrist device that can project interactive holographic screens incorporating haptic feedback in the display, essentially a virtual classroom. I would also love a teleportation machine or wormhole generator to circumnavigate L.A. traffic.
Paul Dizon, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Comfortable, lifelike prosthetics that can be controlled through brain-computer interfaces for patients who have lost a limb.
Alejandro Garcia, PIH Health Whittier Hospital
A mobile dictation device that clips onto your scrubs and allows you to dictate patient notes while on the move, and that prompts you for necessary documentation.
Gerry Gorospe III, USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center
Nanotechnology, using advanced programmed cells to destroy cancer. I imagine the robot smart-cells eliminating the cancer cells one by one, with a “pop.”
Minas Kedilerli, UCLA West Valley Medical Center
A modern-day crystal ball showing how many patients will walk into our ER, so I can anticipate how many beds and nurses I need for the next shift.
Anthony Levesque, Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital
A noninvasive blood analyzer that can analyze blood within the patient’s body with a simple needleless scan. Imagine a world where we didn’t have to draw blood for labs!
Gabriel Molina, Redlands Community Hospital
Some sort of imminent event patch that detects if a patient is about to have a myocardial event, pulmonary embolism, or stroke, and immediately notifies nursing staff.
Athanase Nyamugira, Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center
Bedside robots that could monitor patients, especially ones in danger of falls, or help with delivering medication.
Patrick O’Hare, UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital
Medication pumps that nurses can control through their smartphones and that let nurses monitor information such as fluid volume status right on their phones.
Randy Retama, Dignity Health-St. Mary Medical Center
Tech glasses with a “heads-up display” showing notifications from doctors, labs, and pharmacies, as well as patient vital signs.
Jack Reynolds, Ventura County Medical Center
A crystal ball so that I could see the future and the outcomes for the day ahead.
Kevin Roa, Adventist Health White Memorial Los Angeles
A voice-assist headset to let nurses dictate their charting in real time as they’re doing their assessments, allowing more time with patients and less time on the computer.
Seth Rodriguez, L.A. Care Health Plan
An earpiece that provides accurate real-time automatic translation. It would be so nice to communicate with others in their preferred languages without relying on interpreters. A watch that could temporarily stop time would also be helpful for more reasons than I could ever say.
John Serrano, Casa Colina Hospital and Centers for Healthcare
A teleportation device that could teleport patients from pre-op directly to the OR and then to recovery, and even safely transfer a patient from bed to gurney and vice versa.
Guillermo Soriano, San Gorgonio Memorial Hospital
A holographic patient simulator that would allow nurses to practice complex procedures and emergency responses in a highly realistic yet totally safe environment.
Mark Vaccarino, UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center
Technology that proactively tracks patients’ biomarkers to identify issues early, before they require hospitalization. While some of this exists today, it’s not widely accessible.
Julio Vides, MLK Community Healthcare
A stethoscope that gives you real-time EKG readings and counts respiration rates at the same time.
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