Monitoring nurse rounds??

[TeneshaO'Neal]

A friend of mine told me of a hospital stay in Waco. She said that the nurses wore a device that was shaped like an egg and it monitored how many times the nurse went into patient rooms. Does anyone know what she is referring to? Thanks for the info.

[sofla98]

We have those. Their called "locators" and work with the Hill-Rom call light system.

About the only thing good about them is the button that you can push to call for help.

we also have cameras in all the rooms....patient safety, ya know.

[ak2190]

I believe they use radio frequency to monitor where you are and how long you are there. They also put them on equipment to monitor where it goes. I'm sure that says something unflattering about how hospitals view nurses.

[OhioCCRN, MSN, NP]

They are horribly unreliable! i guess it depends on how they are wired.

A patient said i had NEVER been in in their room (at 12pm) and my manager was able to show her the print out of how many times I was

in her room answering her call light that went off every 10 minutes! so i guess sometimes it works in our favor. otherwise, it is creepy that it does indeed record how long/often you use the bathroom

[whofan, ADN, BSN, RN]

The hospital in Waco is owned by one in Temple. ...the whole system uses them on med surg

[calivianya, BSN, RN]

I used them at a previous job. I liked them. Like a PP said, they do turn the call lights off for you automatically (which I am always forgetting to do now because I never had to do it before), and they do show you where your coworkers are. A light came on in green if a nurse was in the room and in yellow if the person in the room was a tech. It also showed where you were on a monitor at the desk so the secretaries could overhead page you in the room and tell you that you had a phone call.

We didn't have to carry phones or pagers at that job since we were easy to find, which was fabulous.. I think it takes away from patient/family satisfaction to see me answer a cell phone on my hip while I am in the patient's room. If the family HEARS the secretary say, "So and so, you have a phone call, I'm going to transfer it to your perch," they are more likely to respond positively. You also don't have to worry about trying to answer a phone and the call just bouncing to you over and over again if you are elbows deep in poop because the secretary will know to put the call on hold for you. I would happily trade my phone in to have a locator any day of the week