Nursecall: the front line of patient safety
For nurse call systems, hospitals have relied for many years on stationary bedside pull cords, push buttons installed in beds and other stationary devices placed in bathrooms and throughout the hospital.
Today, there is a better solution. It is a small handheld device, about the size of a door opening pendant on a key chain. The device is completely mobile and can be carried by the patient anywhere her or she goes in the hospital. The system operates as part of a response paging system. A patient simply pushes a button on the pendant, which transmits a low-power signal that immediately notifies the assigned nurse through a pager or other wireless device.
This nurse alert system is easy to install and very reliable. It can operate as a dedicated standalone system, or serve as a low-cost, rapidly deployable backup. The mobile handheld system is an excellent solution for hospitals of any size due to its price point which offers hospitals a cost-effective alternative to the more expensive nurse call systems that are in the healthcare marketplace today.