What do you call the tracking device nurses sometimes wear?

[klone]

It's an oval plastic thing that clips to your scrub top and it's able to track where nurses are? Is there a trade name for them or are they called something?

[Xlorgguss]

Our hospital has tracking with a plastic tracker that sits behind your name badge. Whenever staff is in the room the indicator (where the call light would flash) stays green. Its somewhat helpful as it can narrow down what rooms to look for first, but not entirely accurate as they can be slow to change. They also will stay lit up if you are within a certain number of feet from the room so they often stay on if a nurse is charting right outside the room.

[klone, MSN, RN]

Thanks guys, appreciate it! It will be my last legacy to my clinic (my last day is Friday) - that the next supervisor never have to go hunting throughout the hospital for one of our G.D. ultrasound machines that got borrowed overnight and not returned.

[CelticGoddess, BSN, RN]

It's an oval plastic thing that clips to your scrub top and it's able to track where nurses are? Is there a trade name for them or are they called something?

We use Versus Badges. Big brother is watching!

[NursesRmofun, ASN, RN]

When I use to work in a place that had them, it was just called a laser badge. That was a long time ago...and it wasn't working well.

Correction, the ones we have now do track us too...but aren't utilized in the same way. The facility I mentioned in the first paragraph used them to track us for room calls. The place I am in now does not. I have no idea what the name of this thing is! haha

[Glycerine82, LPN]

Track your phone, wallet, keys & anything else with TrackR!

[Buyer beware, BSN]

An invasion of privacy.

On a serious note, I know what you are talking about (saw them in clinical at a specific facility and the nurses HATED them), but have no clue what they are called. Good luck!

"invasion of privacy" that is a serious note, and seriously Right-ON !!! Sometimes also called the invisible fence. Hello, 1984.

[azhiker96, BSN, RN]

My first thought when I saw this thread was "ankle monitor".

But that is some of my forensic patients. We have a Centrak tracker attached to some of our equipment that tends to get lost. It makes it easier to find those items and get them back home.

[Been there,done that, ASN, RN]

Thanks guys, appreciate it! It will be my last legacy to my clinic (my last day is Friday) - that the next supervisor never have to go hunting throughout the hospital for one of our G.D. ultrasound machines that got borrowed overnight and not returned.

How thoughtful of you. if it was my last week, I would be planning my party.

Tell us about your next venture!

[SmilingBluEyes]

I would call them a pain in the ass. Glad I don't work in the hospital environment anymore.

[djh123]

I didn't know they existed, but it sounds like something out of a sci-fi novel. If I can help it, I'll never work at a facility that has them.

[martymoose, BSN, RN]

hahaha I could just see it- some "shirt" reviewing the records ( ours all is recorded on computer as to when lights where answered, who was in what room when, how long, etc) noting that "gee that nurse ( the u/s machine) was in the storage room for days/hours !

[Teacher Sue]

We use them at our hospital as well. The nurses and nursing assistants wear a device that turns call bells off when they go in the room. It also tracks staff's location and records how long they were in a particular place. We can run reports to track staff, but seldom do. I have only run a report once in the past year, and this was due to a patient complaining that she did not see her nurse all day. I was able to run the report and prove that the nurse had been in the room frequently and for extended periods of time.