title: Therapeutic touch is good, but technology cannot be ignored.
abstract: While I agree that nurses should rely more on their sense of touch, sight and hearing when assessing patients (features September 8), this should be in conjunction with state-of-the-art technology and monitoring devices. We need to nurse in the 21st century, not the 19th.
authors.affiliation: Llandudno.
authors.forename: Linda
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Short