Thursday, December 15, 2016

Nurse Call - Immediate Action on Patients


Nurse call is one of the most important and vital communications system used in healthcare facilities (medical centers, hospitals, large clinics) in big urban center like Victoria. The system is responsible for improved emergency response time from nurses. In effect, this also reflects on the facility’s overall efficiency.

The call systems provide patients the speedy response time when needing critical attention from the medical staff (care-giving nurses). Consequently, this ensures the well-being of the patients and minimizes the load of work of the staff.

Benefits


True to all systems, the most basic benefits a patient can derive from them is the immediacy of the communications between nurses and their patients. The nurse call Victoria system allows patients confined in their beds to alert their medical caregiver their present needs at the moment.

On the part of the nurses, the call alerts will inform them that the patient they are in charge with have an immediate need to be attended to. This takes many forms. Assistance in getting up in bed, assistance in the patient’s other physical needs or on some symptoms and conditions (pain, heat, cold, etc.).

Aside from call assistance (pendant type systems), many other types also has other functions included. One important function is locating patients. This is helpful because today’s medical facilities have bigger and wider areas to roam about.

Another function included is whether a patient suffers a fall. If indicated, this needs immediate attention because any delay could be risky for the victim. Another vital function is the prevention of elopement risk by the patient. (This happens when patients are suffering from some type of memory loss or dementia and is unable to identify his/her location and may wander out.)

More details

Most systems now have noiseless operations using microprocessors. Today’s systems are dependable. After a nurse has attended the patient call, she can reset the call (from the patient’s end). This allows the service to have records to avoid future disputes. This is part of the software where real-time logs on the services to the patient are logged.

The systems are now equipped with a function where the nurses are allowed to acknowledge the patient’s call within hospital corridors and hallways. This allows interactive connection between patients and nurses for faster and immediate rendition of the necessary services.

Some current systems

There are several types in the nurse call Victoria systems used by hospitals. One company provider has an extensive group of system to meet the needs of hospitals, nursing home facilities, clinics and others.  One has the most basic nurse and emergency call notices. This is the for the most minimum installation costs.

Another type has a full duplex digital audio communications, an Ethernet network system supporting centralizing call answering, code displays, and transfer of calls between units. It supports integrations like wireless phones, pagers, real-time locating, patient information display, and activity logging and reporting.  

All the other nurse call Victoria system types are variations of what functions the hospital or medical facility deems is needed by its staff nurses.

No comments:

Post a Comment