Really Good Idea or Really Creepy?

courtesy nurse.com

A hospital in central Florida has electronic trackers placed on nurses to track their “workflow”.  It’s not mandatory, it’s voluntary, and the nurses are told that the tracking won’t be used for any punitive purposes.  In addition to nurses and nurse leaders using it for workflow issues and acuity patterns, patients can access the data to see how many times their nurse has been in their room and for how long.  

Hmmm…I’m undecided on this.  I couldn’t care less if someone is reading my emails or monitoring my online purchases (they’d get bored fast), but the electronic tracking thing feels a little different to me. I can see their point that it might help new nurses see their own workflow patterns and help them become more organized, but I also think that this is not something we would ever ask of physicians or other health care professionals.

What do you think?

Well, It Works for Birth Control...

There’s a ring for everything.  Belly buttons, eyebrows, toes, noses, vaginas, and now eyes.  A ring that goes in the eye is awaiting FDA approval; it will eliminate the need for reading glasses.  AND, it’s removable, not implanted and left forever.  Apparently, the ring part is the "close up" lens, like the lower portion of the bifocals some of us are all too familiar with.

Hallelujah!  No more stiff neck from tilting my head back to see the computer screen through the bottom of my glasses.  Finally, a ring for us oldies.