Nurse Call - Basic Necessity

With sprawling urban centers on the rise all over the world, including progressive Australia, there is also the increase of the number of health facilities serving the burgeoning population. With them also come the many services that are now technology-assisted, such as a nurse call Australia.

This is actually an extra addition to the machines and devices that hospitals and health centers use to make their care services succeed in the most efficient manner. When human ingenuity is overtaken by the complexity of the system, technology helps make it efficient.

The system

There are many systems for calling nurses offered by many manufacturing companies. The main appeal to the new facility users is the increased ease in the use of the systems and their attendant devices.

With the basic task of calling the attention of staff nurses regarding their patients, technology had also made thing go with the times. There are other things that the system include together with the devices connected to them. 

Digital and wireless

Most of the popular systems these days run wireless. First, there are many wireless transmitters strategically placed all over the facility where these are needed. There might be wireless LCD reader boards, nursing stations, staff lounges, and others. The alarms would come from various device ID’s issued to patients (pendant transmitters, etc). 

The consoles will then get that station to display the alarm information once activated. Sometimes, in bigger facilities, things are into more complex setups. There might be a paging transmitter or a cell phone text modem integrated so the alarms can be displayed on a staffer’s pocket pager or phone at once.  

Other uses

There will audible tones and visual display of the room number and name of the one needing help.
The receiving consoles are also scattered where the right personnel can immediately respond to the patient’s call for assistance.

In big facilities, there are now added wireless emergency pull stations in bathrooms, dome lights over doors, or even code blue stations for priority emergencies. Other rooms with the devices include exam rooms, psychiatric wards, procedure rooms, waiting areas, or any area that staff or patients would need to signal asking for assistance.

Devices

The devices, sometimes referred to as wireless emergency response transmitters are carried not only by patients but are also placed in critical areas (bathroom pull stations, code blue stations, push button stations).

The patients have their wrist and necklace panic buttons, fall alarm pendants (in cases of patients falling) and more. The system monitors not just the patients carrying them but also the other critical areas for patients.

Application and equipment options

The system is now in use in places other than medical health facilities and hospitals for nurses and other hospital staff. They are now also used in assisted living facilities (nursing homes, housing for seniors), convalescent centers and even in schools and gated communities. 

The equipments have several options as well. There are wireless patient stations, pull stations, wireless pendants and wrist transmitters, pocket page alarms and many more according to the needs of the facility. Nurse call and technology had come a long way.