Technology can save lives.

In todays field of nursing, instructors can check the accuracy of the students skills with something as simple as a double headed stethoscope. A digital blood pressure cuff can give out an patients reading when a nurse has touble hearing the blood pressure through a manual sphygmomanometer. In most of the Registered Nursing Schools, it is a prerequiste that nurses take computer technology courses. Nurse's often do much of their documentation on the computer, giving physcians, pharmacists and other nurses instant access to how the patient is doing. Nursing instuctors often require students to use the internet to get information on disease process of patients, so students can have a clear understanding of what is going on in the patient's body and helps the student in understanding an participating the plan of care for this person. However, technology can never replace a nurses bedside manner and the empathy that is required when taking care of someone who ill.