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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?

feb 28 by jlog.j feb 28 by jlog.j a member since feb '12. posts: 4 likes: 1 the hospital i work for is wanting to get er admits to the floor within 30 minutes of a room assignment being given. the er nurse is suppose to bring th...

It won't help, it will let Admin. know who to blame and to fire when it happens. This is the cheap way to "keep pts safe", and like I've said before, admin. can say to ACHA "look we are so serious abt pt. safety we even installed these cameras".

Exactly, and our nurses station is all open for everyone to see.

I think its more for risk mgmt.

The only thing is that too many times (b/c this company wants as many admissions as possible and the ER doc comes down to the floor and states "I have to meet my quota") that we, the m/s nurse does not get the true picture of the pt. and like I said ...

Yes we do have bed alarms, but it looks much better to AHCA to have camers over the bed too.

Isn't that the truth, what's up with that. So many admits at change of shift. It's rediculous.

I totally agree, we are not union however.

The hospital I work for is wanting to get ER admits to the floor within 30 minutes of a room assignment being given. The ER nurse is suppose to bring the pt to the floor and while she is doing that she is suppose to give the receiving nurse the repo...

The only thing is that too many times (b/c this company wants as many admissions as possible and the ER doc comes down to the floor and states "I have to meet my quota") we, the m/s nurse does not get the true picture of the pt. and like I said we do...

Great advise, thank you very much. I will keep everyone updated.

Great advise. Thank you very much. I'll let everyone know how it works out.

We have to transfer the pt out to a larger hosp. about 80 miles away. Currently now, the ER will call M/S,speak to the charge nurse & tell her a little about the pt. so as to assign an appropriate room, we obtain a copy of the orders, within abo...

We are a small hospital, we only have 1 unit-M/S to admit to and administration wants as many admissions as possible and as quickly as possible. Apparently we (m/s nurses)are not discharging and admitting fast enough. Again, I am very concerned for...

Thanks for sharing your experience. Glad to know we are not the only ones having issues like this. We do not have an ICU, so not sure what we will do if we get an unstable pt. I'm having a hard time dealing with this "for profit" hospital now (we ...

That is a very good idea, to call the rapid response team. Would this scenerio be considered pt. dumping? Would this be considered a EMTALA violation? And you are right, if I inconvience the doctors enough maybe they will like you said "put a li...

It must be a for profit hospital.