[PattonD]

How do you guys feel about wearing tracking devices on your person? Your location displays on a computer screen where you are at inside the hospital at all times.

Thanks

[JenTheRN]

Um, this is a joke, right? I mean we're nurses, not prisoners! Who needs to know EXACTLY where I am at all times?!?

I can see having them on babies...but not the nurses.

[DOBOY]

The ER department at my hospital is trying out a tracking system. They told us it was so pts could not say they have not seen a nurse in so long. Personally I think it's so the hospital knows where we are. I tend to forget mine...opps

[Marie_LPN]

We have the tracking devices that you're talking about on our Maternity floor. The nurses there said they like it.

They're in the process of getting a walkie-talkie version of it.

[WolfpackRed]

When I did clinicals at Duke Hospital, the nurses there wore these types of devices. They also functioned as "walkie-talkies" to allow the nurse to communicate with the nurse's station. They did help if you needed to ind a nurse quickly, and I don't recall anyone complaining about their use, but I did see how they could serve other nefarious purposes like tracking the amount of time a nurse was off the floor and such.

[PattonD]

Here are some pros & cons....

http://www.workrights.org/in_the_new...s_abcnews.html

[nurturing_angel]

My supervisor has talked to us about a similar device that we may start using. Supposedly it will tell tptb who isn't answering lights in a timely fashion and if we spend too much time in the breakroom or the bathroom. All of this is because some bigwig complained that his wife waited too long to have her light answered on another floor. Not sure I will comply with wearing one.


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[traumaRUs]

The hospital where I used to work used them on the floors, but not the ICU or ER. They've been in use for about five years and there have been no complaints.

[weirdRN]

This defenately has some intresting uses!

[muffie]

i can't stand pagers and beepers

i'd have to be implanted with the microchip