Well, Isn't This Special

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Specializes in MICU, SICU, CICU.
Anna S, RN said:
The app is free, so I don't think activating it gets a person to call the hospital, it's probably a robo call.

The app is free. The service is a paid subscription, $7.95 per week, $14.95 per month. The downloads were available until about an hour ago.

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Specializes in HH, Peds, Rehab, Clinical.

If we're not available to run to a call light in 22 seconds, you can bet we're not sitting around waiting for the phone to ring!

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Specializes in 15 years in ICU, 22 years in PACU.

This revolutionary app will also send the subscriber an e-mail ANY time their loved one presses the Notify Nurse button. How long before the loved one's family member gets as overloaded with e-mails as the nurses station gets with these dang outside calls? There is no way the call center will actually be able to speak to the patient's nurse to "insure" they will visit the loved one EVERY time. Or will they actually issue some sort of insurance policy?

And it gets worse, of course. What if the nurse is on a legal break, in an isolation room, change of shift report, on a transport with another patient?

The revolution I see is the nurse manager's head when her staff goes flying out the door never to return should this idiotic app be taken seriously.

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lindarn said:
Will they also include, how many patients that your loved ones nurse is assigned to care for? Or any and all, other responsibilities that your loved ones nurse is responsible for? How many discharges, admissions, ? Let me count the ways!

Just another episode and the $0.02 from:

Lindarn, RN, BSN, CCRN(ret)

Somewhere in the PACNW

There should be a spot that tells them "You are currently 24th in line. Press 1 to resume wait. Press 2 to cancel. Press 3 to call the CEO."

I bet after the third call, that would be the end of that.

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That Guy said:
Oh please let them call me just once. I swear I will play nice.

Liar. Don't bite too hard.

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Holy crap!! I Googled it and it's for real!!!

Shoot me now!!!

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/getmynurse/id794557037

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Specializes in 15 years in ICU, 22 years in PACU.
canigraduate said:
There should be a spot that tells them "You are currently 24th in line. Press 1 to resume wait. Press 2 to cancel. Press 3 to call the CEO."

I bet after the third call, that would be the end of that.

Ring.... ring... I need a nurse for a clean up on my keyboard!

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Ortho, ASC.
canigraduate said:
Holy crap!! I Googled it and it's for real!

Shoot me now!

It's extremely easy to post a review. Just download the app (free) and you're entitled to review. DONE!

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Specializes in PCCN.

This is a disaster waiting to happen. said family member gets email/text message. Marches right in to tear said staff member a new excretory opening for not tending to their loved one.

Dont forget,people like this , who would subscribe to this, DONT care that you may have OTHER PATIENTS, BE RUNNING A CODE, PERFORMING A PROCEDURE, be elbow deep in excrement, With customer service oriented Me-me-me, no one else matters. Including other patients.

Cant wait......

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jrwest said:
This is a disaster waiting to happen. said family member gets email/text message. Marches right in to tear said staff member a new excretory opening for not tending to their loved one.

don't forget,people like this , who would subscribe to this, don't care that you may have OTHER PATIENTS, BE RUNNING A CODE, PERFORMING A PROCEDURE, be elbow deep in excrement, With customer service oriented Me-me-me, no one else matters. Including other patients.

Cant wait......

At what point can you call security to have them removed? Raised voice? Threat of violence? Interfering with you doing your job?

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ixchel said:
Yyyyyyyup. The only thing that bothers me is that the developers may wise up to that and then start charging money for a better app with hairy guys in their underwear in mom's basement acting as a "call center" to bother a nurse to go check on Nana. It's okay. It'll backfire when the dementia patients start pushing it over and over at 2 am.

Anybody else feel like this is an attempt to target vulnerable people? I only remember seeing one resident with a smart phone at the LTC I finished my CNA course at, but there are still many younger adults that don't understand modern technology. They seem to be selling the idea that this service will get your nurse there faster or in trouble through some kind of internet sorcery. All they have to do is cough up the cash.

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Specializes in MICU, SICU, CICU.

You do not have to be an RN to answer call lights, in fact, that is not an efficient use of a nurse's time. In many hospitals the CNAs answer all of the call lights and that is how it should be.

LTC is a pit for our seniors where many die of dehydration and neglect; that is what led to development of this app.

If I had a family member trach and vent dependent in an LTACH, I would absolutely buy this service .

I support the concept of any outside monitoring on a secure gateway that incentivizes hospitals and LTC facilities to lower the ratios and hire more CNAs.

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