Nurse Call – Faster and More Direct

When the digital revolution (computers, the Internet) took on the world, every facet of human civilization took off with it. These would normally include communications, manufacturing and other industries as well as commerce and trade. The health industry has its own medical innovations. This includes nurse call. 

Basically, this is the hospital service that lets patients call the attention of their nurses mostly in cases of emergency. These days, however, with the advent of modern technological innovations, the system is now used not just for calling the attention of nurses.

The added applications include improved services and the quality of their staff, having integrated into the systems in the monitoring of the clinical workforce. (One of the latest is the RTLS or real-time location system, also included in improving workflow efficiency.)

Alerts

There are now several brands and models of the alert systems now in use by the different hospitals. The brands have several models which the hospital facility can choose the system that best fits their needs at the moment. Some of the choices are dictated by the size and number of their patients

Other hospitals choose other models because they carry the specific features useful in their systems that include the monitoring of the personnel. The others were selected because the features they carry are useful and beneficial to the patients but also the staff.

The more sophisticate systems and packages carry the devices and software features that are being used by the hospital and its staff. The additional features are over and above the one that concerns the patients. These nurse call systems were not available before.

Advantages

Those features and functions before are now updated, and have been calibrated to the present needs of the modern medical facilities. The system and the devices that go with them now offer more advantages not just to patients but to the nursing staff as we…

One very important innovation is having the attention of the assigned nurse or caregiver are done directly. This is done for quicker results.

Data

The many hospitals today have their important data integrated with the3 electronic health records of the patients, the monitoring of the patient’s present condition, patient flow and a real-time location system, patient interactive engagement, security and emergency communications and others.

The new add-ons and the refurbished transportable devices are all geared to service the patient well for a better and faster response to the call of attention. In an obvious sense, the new system need not decipher which alarms need to be responded to as quickly as possible.  

Pinpoint communication

In some big facilities nowadays, the system they are using need not decipher which alarms need to be responded to immediately. There are now provisions where specific alarms are sent directly to the nurses on duty. (This prevents confusion which alarms are meant for whom.

Today, one of the main aims is having pinpoint accuracy as to who is being called because the direct action precludes dispensing of some protocols. This is one of way of speeding up the services.