Nurse Call - Past the Buzzer Days

The growth of digital technology had triggered a chain-reaction of growth and progress in other areas. Mostly, these had most of its impact in enhanced communications, health and medicine, commerce and industry, entertainment and more. Fortunately, nurse call went with alongside the growth.

The upgrades on the system at present had included streamline communications methods, the integration of clinical workforce, the many innovative uses of the present technology and their integrated mini-systems.

The main use of the system was as a measure to counter the increasing number of patients. The main aim to alert the nurses’ on-duty was to make responses among the care-giving professionals (mostly the nurses) timelier and bring with them their service qualities needed.

Paging

Different hospitals use different systems in paging their nurses. All of the systems, however, are similar in principle. They only differ on the technologies used, the procedural techniques and the other integrated actins as provided by their software.

One system, for example, has the patient initiating the call via a call station button. The patient’s information and other pertinent data were displayed. They also included the time and date, the room number, the type of call (emergency, bed, etc.) and were immediately sent to the assigned nurse where the same info is presented.

Some other systems have other additional sections like levels of escalation, depending on the urgency and the type of medical requirements of the patient. Some feature repeats on the notices on unanswered alerts.

Once a response had been received, this will not be put on display on the monitor. (However, the notices are recorded and stores for review, analysis and other future actions.

Other details 

Some systems used wireless pendants in the nurse call Victoria. Some are in the form of belt clips, neck pendants, or sometimes as wrist bands. All need to be in constant surveillance and supervision because most units are battery-operated and are in danger of unit power failure.

Signals are transmitted on multiple frequencies to ensure reliability and connection to the called party. Today’s systems are not dependent on any particular operating systems. Some are browser-based for easier accessibility.

Some advanced systems have their nurses station and offsite computers provide visual notices on these alarms for the nurses. Still some have large wall pagers that display the notifications all over the facility.

Benefits

Caregivers are now just a push button away. One big benefit of the systems is the quick administration of health care that’s timely, quicker, and without risks.  In older days, physically locating a nurse at their station or elsewhere can be hard on patients.

Today’s system in alerting nurses is a boon to healthcare solutions. This will temporarily take care of the growing problem of continues growth of the number of patients and the present demand of on-time medical attention.

This will not only help facilitate faster communications, it also helps in facilitating better workflow, and management of the hospital’s manpower. Today’s nurse call Victoria has come a long way since the time of the noisy buzzers.