Artificial Brain for the Humanoid-Nurse Robots of the Future: Integrating PsyNACS© and Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

Robots in healthcare are being developed rapidly, as they offer wide-ranging medical applications and care solutions. However, it is quite challenging to develop high-quality, patient-centered, communication-efficient robots. This can be attributed to a multitude of barriers such as technology maturity, diverse healthcare practices, and humanizing innovations. In order to engineer an ideal Humanoid-Nurse Robots (HNRs), a profound integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and information system like nursing assessment databases for a better nursing care delivery model is required. As a specialized nursing database in psychiatric hospitals, the Psychiatric Nursing Assessment Classification System and Care Planning System (PsyNACS©) has been developed by Ito et al., to augment quality and safe nursing care delivery of psychiatric health services. This chapter describes the nursing landscape in Japan, PsyNACS© as a specialized nursing database, the HNRs of the future, and the future artificial brain for HNRs linking PsyNACS© with AI through deep learning and Natural Language Processing (NLP).

Robots and Robotics in Nursing

“…A robot functions in such a way that when it senses (recognizes) patient physiological conditions in specific situations, the transmitter will communicate the data to the display device and be stored in the patient database. This healthcare robot functions through an ASI, which has different systems and sensors and delivers nursing care services efficiently [ 21 ]. These efficient and accurate functionalities have become the priority operational functions desired for developing robots in nursing [ 19 , 21 ].…”

“…This healthcare robot functions through an ASI, which has different systems and sensors and delivers nursing care services efficiently [ 21 ]. These efficient and accurate functionalities have become the priority operational functions desired for developing robots in nursing [ 19 , 21 ].…”

“…The inclusion of advancements in technologies is heightened by the demands of healthcare in a highly technological world. The preference for a reimagined landscape fully determined by a humanizing care environment, as emphasized in Locsin’s theory in which technology, caring, and nursing have become inseparable, coexisting as conceptual models of humanizing care [ 21 ].…”