Camera over each pts bed on the M/S unit.

[jlog.j]

Our hospital has had several falls recently, admin. has put a camera over each bed now with the monitor at the nurses station. This seems like an invasion of privacy to me. Does anyone work on a M/S unit like this?

[wearingmanyhats, RN]

I will be a patient in the next few weeks... I would be VERY upset if I found out that they were taping me... What if I decided to scratch somewhere that one would NEVER scratch in public???

WRONG.... WRONG...... WRONG..... in so many ways!!!

[msannie]

I am all for Non-Invasive Cameras if it will help reduce the mortality rate in hospitals.

My father was admitted to ICU for bleeding. During the early hours of the morning, he went into distress. No one knew for some reason. I, his daughter, found him UN-responsive, not the medical staff, who should have. I don't how long he laid like that! He ended up brain dead, in a coma, paralyzed on one side, and placed on life support. He died a few days later.

Now, if the medial cartel would be willing to own up to mistakes, and be willing to learn to evaluate the error and fix it so it doesn't happen again, advocates would be a lot happier.

Failure to monitor is increasingly becoming an issue. No/low staffing, too busy with other patients, focusing on one patient as I was told by a nurse, muted machines, not hooked up to the proper machine, ignoring the machines, obstruction of view, not being at the nurses station at all times, these should NOT be reasons for losing a patient.

Whatever way cameras can give added monitoring of a patient without invading their privacy, I am all for it. https://www.causes.com/campaigns/88955-install-non-invasive-icu-cams-i-see-you-in-all-hospitals

It's been three years and I still don't have answers as to why they didn't know my father was in distress. Complete closure will never be...