How Technology Has Changed The Act Of Nursing

In a study conducted through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on “average 79 people will receive an organ each day; however, an average of 22 people die each day” waiting for transplants that cannot take place because of the shortage of donated organs (U.S. D.H.H.S). The average amount of patients waiting for an organ can reduce to zero with the continued development of 3-D printers. 3-D printing is a process of making three dimensional solid objects from a digital file. The digital file is uploaded onto a computer software, and then the 3-D printer prints the digital file out onto different materials. The materials include plastic, resin, nylon, sandstone. The finish products become replicas of the digital file, and what was an idea is now a reality. Therefore, 3-D printers will one day be the future of organ transplants because over the past twenty years the technology industry has rapidly grown into the focal point in society. From advancement in communication, to the medical field, science and technology has shaped this world today. Thus, the American Government should invest more money into the medical field budget because the research conducted on new technology (3-D Printers) leads to more lives saved, and expands the opportunity of future medical breakthroughs.

Doctors and engineers have been working on another way to get organs a faster and more efficient way. Using 3D printers can help with their problem. They have worked on using a 3D printer to make organs that are a perfect match for patients. This can be very useful it can get an organ ready in a short amount of time helping the patient recovery faster as well. Organ transplants are hard to come by. One you have to be put in a waiting list, and people are usually on that list for a long while, just waiting for a perfect match to come. But sometimes it takes to long and some people die while still on the waiting list. But when an organ finally does come they feel bad because someone had to die in order for them to use it. So Dr Ali Khademhosseini is trying to use 3D printing to help solve this problem. His theory is he can make organs from a 3D printer, which can make the waiting list decrease faster and have people not have to die in order for a perfect match. 3D printers have been used to make Human cells, tissue, and blood vessels. But making something like a heart is much more difficult. Because you have to make the beating and pumps. (Mesley). There have been problems in the past that have just know started to show in some people. "Viruses aren't the only worry, and here too the past may serve as a guide. In 1956 injections of human growth hormone became a standard therapy for children failing to develop properly. The hormone was extracted from

Nursing is an arduous profession and it has many rewards and hardships. After devoting five years into nursing, I always ask my fellow, elderly nurses that how they manage to work at the bedside this long. The answer is usually, "nursing has changed over the years". The nursing value has shifted from patient centered care to patient and family centered care. Therefore, the focus is geared more towards patient satisfaction and healthcare costs. This in return has built enormous amount of stress among nurses, causing mental and physical burnout. The physical burnout is from lifiting and turning patients without a proper staffing and equipments provided. Budhrani-Sahni & Collegues (2016) stated that nursing is the fifth largest

In the past, the only way to replace diminished cells, tissues, and organs was from organ transplantation. An organ donor was needed, and the tissues would be surgically removed from the donated body and placed into the recipient. Due to the current research being conducted, it is believed that tissue engineering and organ printing can contribute to the process of improving and saving lives.

Nursing has always been synonymous with caring. Dr. Jean Watson describes caring as the center of all nursing practices and that it is “a moral ideal rather than a task-oriented behavior” (Tomey & Alligood, 2006, p. 94). At this time in history, there is a nursing shortage that will only get worse unless changes are made to retain old nurses and entice new nurses into the profession. This paper addresses the nursing shortage and how technology can help or hinder the care we give.

What exactly is nursing? Nursing is one of the top professions today and has been around for many years starting closely at the primitive times. The way nursing has changed over the years is drastic due to the new advancements in medicine and the information learned everyday. Including the way we care for patients and how we view them, and new advancements in medicine and wages. It takes a number of different skills to be a nurse and nursing has changed and became more complex has time goes by and this will continue to happen as long as illnesses and new findings are being discovered daily. “The events of the past few years have permanently altered some aspects of the social fabric of the world, but other elements have remained discouragingly

Hi Katherine, good selection of topic as well awesome presentation, I am new to pod cast presentation though heard about 3D technology, not this much in detail. You did a good job on your presentation. It is true that health care become increasingly more complex, it is necessary nurses must maintain the technological competencies necessary to deliver high-quality care. This includes the ability to respond appropriately to new technologies. These technologies have the potential to change our nursing practice as well. At the same time, as patient advocates and frontline caregivers, nurses must ensure that new technologies do not devalue the human element in healthcare. Bioprinting is one of the most exciting new technologies in healthcare which

While the bioprinting of organs has a common use, the development of the organ varies significantly between numerous techniques. Allografts are tissue donations from a donor, autografts are tissues from the patient 's body being moved to where they are needed, and xenografts are tissues from an animal. Whilst autografts are more common, they have limited use in terms of organ transplantation. When a patient needs a new lung or a kidney, it is because the lungs or kidneys they have are not working properly and in these cases autografts are not viable. The main types of allografts are transplanted organs. It is in this category that bioprinting offers major advances to what modern medical science has been working with.

On April 9th of 2013, a dying toddler was finally saved after two years of living under strict medical care. The toddler, Hannah Warren, was born without a windpipe that was needed for proper respiratory purposes. The treatment consisted of a 3D printed replacement windpipe made of her own stem cells, which was, as TIME’s writer Alexandra Sifferlin stated, “approved by the FDA as an experimental operation for patients with very little hope of survival.” Although the treatment was experimental, this was an astounding advancement in medical technology because “being born without a trachea is fatal in 99% of cases.” (Sifferlin) 3D printing technology has been advancing at a rapid rate and has demonstrated a vast number of beneficial applications including Warren’s experimental treatment. Richard Seymour, a writer in the African Business Magazine explains how “Applications for the new technology are myriad. Medicine, agriculture, military, automotive, technology, engineering, fashion, architecture and aerospace are just some of the industries which can benefit from the new process.” (44) In his article, Seymour lists various instances of 3D printing being used such making prototyping Nike running shoes cheaper, jet engines more efficient, organ replacement more likely to occur, cheaper medicine, and improved space travel. Because of all the beneficial tasks it can perform, it would appear that 3D printing could have a central role in the future of technology, yet such a

Have you ever had a relative or friend that was in need of a transplant but was just waiting for their death instead? As you may know, waiting for a specific organ can take from one hour to one day or possibly one year. Now just think how Bioprinting can quicken the time help those who have a failing organs. The first synthetic organ transplant took place in 2011, this was a huge breakthrough in the field of regenerative medicine. This area of bioengineering involves engineering stem cells to grow into functioning tissues and organs to replace diseased ones. Once the functioning tissue(s) or organ(s) is/are complete, we can then use bioprinting to construct the organ or tissue needed for transplant. This option will immensely reduce the time

Innovation- It is predicted that 3D bioprinting will revolutionize the field of health care by 2030. It is one of the high technology products i.e. creating high quality biomaterials which will be safe for the patients. The company focuses on high precise cell placement and the digital control of speed, what will be the diameter of printed cells, how bigger will be drop volume and

The idea of three-dimensional bioprinting with a focus in creating organs or replacement tissues has several benefits alone. The most significant advantage of bioprinting is the possibility of creating viable organs that can be used for transplants. According to the American Transplant Foundation, there are around 120,000 people in need of an organ transplant, with an average of 22 people dying each day because they could not find an organ in time (American Transplant Foundation, 2016). Patients with damaged or diseased organs could have their failing organs replaced with a new organ made out of the patients’ own tissue, via the three-dimensional bioprinter (Chau, 2015). This means that the idea of an organ transplant wait list would be a thing of the past, and patients could have an organ printed that very day. This would extend the life span and could save the lives of those in need of an organ. This is also a significant advantage, because three-dimensional bioprinting utilizes the patient’s own tissue and cells to regenerate and create new skin or organs (Mahmoud, 2015). This notably decreases the risk of rejection of the organ or tissue. Bioprinting also has the advantage of being more cost effective and time-efficient than waiting up to months or even years for an organ (American Transplant Foundation, 2016). While an organ transplant will generally cost an average of around 1 million dollars, due to the procedure, immunosuppressants, and the extensive hospital stays, a bioprinted organ could save you thousands, due to the shorter hospital stays, and decreased need of immunosuppressants (Chua,

According to the Article "Three Babies' Lives Saved With 3D-Printed Device Designed To Change Shape Over Time" it stated, that doctors used a 3D printer to create a splint to create an airway for babies that could not breathe. Three babies’ boys with life- threating problems are still alive today because of a 4D biomaterial, which is a medical implant that will change shape over time called a splint. This splint will help them keep breathing. With this new technology it will not only help patients with just respiratory, but also people with disorder with the heart, bones, muscles or gut.

Currently, alternatives, such as mechanical devices and artificial prostheses, don’t repair tissue or organ functions because they are not intended for integrating host tissues, and if these alternatives are used for long-term implantation, the recipient could suffer from an inflammatory response (Chapekar). For illnesses such as end-stage liver disease, the only successful treatment is through transplant, and the odds of receiving a new liver is improbable (Kaihara and Vacanti). Another treatment must be discovered. In 1988, a NSF sponsored meeting defined a new treatment idea called tissue-engineering: the “application of the principles and methods of engineering

In the past two decades, 3-D printing has grown from a “niche manufacturing process” to a $2.7 billion industry, responsible for the fabrication of all sorts of things: toys, jewelry, machine parts, and even food (Griggs). But now scientists are working to apply that same technology to the field of medicine. In labs around the world, like the one at Organovo, scientists have begun to print prototype body parts including heart valves, ears, artificial bone, joints, menisci, vascular tubes, and skin grafts, (“Bioprinting”). The innovation of this technology lies in the fact that it generates actual living human cells, allowing for the reproduction of organs and tissue that “mimic the form and function of native tissues in the body” (“Bioprinting”). Since its