Nurse Call – Improved Innovations

When the digital revolution (computers, the Internet) took off, many developments and innovations took off with it. These are in areas of communications, manufacturing, health, and commerce for some examples. The health industry had its own medical innovations, which includes nurse call Brisbane.

At the outset, this had been an old medical service in hospitals where patients could call the attention of their nurses should they need something. Calling the nurse’s attention is mostly done in emergencies.

Today’s system is used not just for calling the attention of nurses but includes other uses. The new 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

Currently, different hospitals use different systems in paging nurses. Basically, however, these systems are not different in principles by themselves. The differences are more on technicalities in their procedures.

One example is one system that has the patient initiating a call through a call station button. The patient’s information is then displayed on the monitoring computer which includes time and date, room number, type of call (emergency, bed, etc.) and is sent to the patient’s assigned nurse

Others have their software adding new programmed actions like levels of escalation of the calls, the urgency and the immediate requirements of the patient. They even have reports on unanswered alerts.

Other details

Still other systems have wireless devices which they wear by way of belt clips, neck pendants, or as wrist bands. These are all battery-operated. The signals are sent on multiple frequencies to ensure reliability and connection.

Some systems are not using a dedicated particular operating system. Some others are browser-based and can be accessed at any computer. Their reliability and stability have not been in question so far.

Some of the systems, too, have their nurse stations and offsite computers issue visual notifications of these alarm calls for the nurses and staff. Others provide their large wall pagers which display the notifications all over the facility.

Benefits

One obvious benefit is that the administration of health care is done quickly, more efficiently and without risks. In the old days, physically locating a nurse at their station can be exhausting to the patients. Today, the nurses are just a push button away.

The upgrades on the system are also a boost to the healthcare solutions. There is now an ever-increasing volume of patients and the demand for on-time medical services. The benefits of the new systems in use include faster communications and actions as well as better workflow among the staff and the management of the hospital assets.

Before, the main goal was to meet the rising challenge of the ever-increasing number of patients in these medical facilities and hospitals.

With today’s new version of nurse call Brisbane, the new versions of alert systems bring with them new additional services that improves not just on that simple alert servicing, but also on the other nurse-patient relationship.