- Digitalisation in my job
I’m a little bit over 50 years old, so I have seen our world change to different digital environments in many ways. When I was younger we didn’t have mobile phones or computers. When I was in seventh grade, we had computer science as an optional course. It was so difficult and there was no internet at home or at school either. When we wanted to find some information, we had to go to a library or look at encyclopedias at home. I was at my first permanent job when I bought my first mobile phone. With the mobile phone, I couldn’t even send text messages. You can only imagine how much life has changed these past years from that situation.
I have been working in my job about 15 years now, so I have seen the change from paperwork to digital environment. When I got my job, some thing were done digitally, but these past years so many thing have changed so that they are almost entirely done by computer. Even in the operation room you have to use computer quite a lot and fill information to many programs. Our whole life has been change to mobile devices and different applications. Younger nurses seem to learn the use of different digital devices and programs much easier, but for nurses with older age, it could take some time to learn these things and the use of new equipment.
In surgery, the development of digitalisation and new devices have helped to stop intraoperative bleeding, for example. Many different kinds of machines are being developed for that. It is a way to save a lot of time in surgery, and time is money, they say 😊.
- GDPR
Data protection is a big part of my job. In the heath care sector all information has to be in a safe environment. Older people may have many difficulties to take care of their things because they may not know how to use computer or other digital applications. In my field we have to take care of every patient’s digital and personal protection. Every nurse has to know how to process people’s data. If you go and look at someone’s personal data and you haven’t been taking care of this person yourself, you may lose your job because it’s a crime to see people’s personal data if you are not in a nursing relationship to that person.
GDPR is very good nowadays but there are new people born every day who invent new ways to hack data. Can data ever be in a real place of safety nowadays? Digital safety professionals race constantly with malicious hackers to invent ways to protect data from attacks, which leads to hackers inventing new ways to break into the systems, and the circle goes on. Luckily, we have a high level of education in Finland in all fields of professions, and future professionals are trained to handle digital information and data with safe manners. In nursing studies, for example, handling patient information is a key part of studies very early on and undoubtedly it trains the future nurses very well to the digitalized environment and its risks.
- Chat GTP
I asked ChatGPT about the work of an operation room nurse. In my opinion, ChatGPT’s answer was quite good. It was aware of the ground rules, but some words it used were kind of weird. I have used ChatGPT a couple of times, so I’m aware its answers are not always believable. ChatGPT doesn’t know the rules and laws of different countries or the methods of operation of different workplaces. Nowadays you can’t know for sure if the information you read has been created with artificial intelligence, and especially older people can’t necessarily tell the right information from wrong.
Artificial intelligence is coming, that’s for sure. We have already seen it in many different settings, from professional world to the world of entertainment. Without a doubt, it has made many things easier and opened up a lot of new possibilities – some artists have started to create music with it and it is built as a key feature to new mobile phone systems, for example. But it has also made other things more complicated. Job applicants may have used artificial intelligence to create their applications, the pictures we see in news or other articles may not be real even though they seem so, or the essays of students may have been written with AI, to name a few possible issues.
How artificial intelligence can be used in healthcare, is a different story. In our field, there has already been talk about the use of artificial intelligence in the planning of work shifts, which undoubtedly has the potential to ease the work load of the employees who have to use many hours to fit the shifts of many nurses together. Naturally, there would have to be a real person to check the result, as is the case with the AI created summaries sometimes presented with news articles, for example, but the effect could still be pretty big. Without a doubt, this is just the beginning, and artificial intelligence could play a significant role also in the health care field in the future.
4. Self evaluation
Videos were interesting and really makes me think many things. Digitalisation comes more and more to our lives and we don’t neseccerelly think how much we give data for many different instances. AI is coming more and more to our lives, so we have to think that it’s positive direction. But also we have to remember that everything there is not true yet, but I think that AI learn more everyday also. Our world is going more to digitalization and we just have to live with that.
I commented these Blogs: