NURSE CALL SYSTEMS

Nurse Call Systems

Nurse Call Systems

Nurse call systems are used in many places, including hospitals, schools, and long-term care facilities. Nurse call systems are devices that can be used for patients to contact nurses or other health care providers when they need help and have been widely adopted as an alternative to overhead paging. Nurse call systems are important in helping nurses and caregivers offer the best care to patients by allowing patients to call for help or nurses to request additional assistance in serving patients as the need arises, have proven to be a critical tool to improving patient outcomes, and can mean the difference between life and death for some patients.

  • Patient Safety - Nurse call systems allow patients to call nurses when they need help. Nurse call systems can also be designed to detect patient movement alerting nurses if a patient falls or leaves their room or bed. Nurse call systems can be connected to other medical equipment, monitoring heart rate, breathing, and other critical health indicators to ensure patients are monitored and crises are responded to quickly. Both patients and caregivers can initiate the call. Once at the patient’s location, caregivers can also initiate calls for a doctor or other nurses if necessary.   
  • Efficiency – Nurse call systems allow a patient to speak to a nurse before the nurse comes to the room, allowing the nurse to respond to the call with the right resources in one visit to the room rather than repeat visits to assess and then respond to the call. Continued monitoring of patients with a nurse call system allows a facility to deploy its personnel without needing constant back-and-forth movement to the patient location to assess their needs, resulting in fewer missed care opportunities. They can be beneficial because they allow patients to speak to a nurse without leaving their room or waiting for a staff member to arrive on the floor.
  • Patient Satisfaction – Nurse call systems allow patients to request care when needed, improving response times while keeping unnecessary disruptions from care staff to check on the patient to a minimum and a quieter, more restful environment with no overhead alarms or speakers. Patients also feel more independent, knowing that help can be on the way with the push of a button or the pull of a cord. Nurse call systems provide patients with privacy while waiting for their care providers.
  • Better Workflow – Besides being more efficient, nurse call systems help reduce the workload for medical staff. The benefits of using this system are that it will help nurses who have to work at night shift as it provides them with enough light and additional safety measures. Nurse call systems make the best use of time and resources. Lights will show different colors based on the need for the call. Once a call is triggered, the console will display and track the patient's location, the call type, the wait time, and the status, as well as trigger the corridor lights. Once the call is cleared, the lights are automatically switched off. The logging and tracking workflow allows the organization’s management staff to analyze the data to improve staffing and coverage to make the most of their care and recognize the ROI of implementing a nurse call system.

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