Health Business

You may not realise it, but your nurse call alarm system may not be as safe and efficient as you think: Most nurse call systems display information about incoming alarm calls from patients on central display panels or overdoor lights, however, in a large ward environment it can be difficult to accurately identify the call location. As a result, response times can be unnecessarily slow as nurses attend to calls, deal with their patient’s needs and then return to the central screen to pick up details of their next alarm call. It is inefficient for your staff, costly for you and, most worryingly, potentially dangerous for your patients.

Mindful of this, Aid Call has developed a radical new wireless nurse call system. The Touchsafe R range of products which address the key safety and functional issues of current systems on the market. Working closely with estate departments and nursing staff, Aid Call have gone back to basics to address the challenges facing today’s hospital environment and created the most reliable, efficient and safe wireless system available.

The centrally placed Touchsafe R CP5000 display panel has a full alpha-numeric screen that shows ward and bed location as well as attending nurse’s identification with optional floor plans/map locations on its high visibility display, whilst permanently logging all information safely for record and audit purposes. But most importantly the new Touchsafe R ATX5000 call points feature an LCD screen which displays a ‘next call waiting’ message, enabling staff to access their next call from the current patient’s room without having to revisit the central display panel - or carry expensive pocket pagers.

The ‘nurse identification’ feature provides a permanent record of the nurse in attendance, which combined with the response time and attendance time recorded in the log, allow you to produce full and tailored activity reports, a valuable tool to assist with monitoring the efficiency of your staff. The advantages are obvious – response times between calls are quicker and less staff time is wasted and most importantly, you know there is no risk of a patient being left unattended.

But this isn’t the only way in which your current system may not be as safe as you think:  The vast majority of radio nurse call systems operate on unregulated general purpose radio frequencies. This means your nurse call, an ‘Essential Life Safety’ system, would be competing for the airwaves with car key fobs, burglar alarms, remote controls, and countless other devices transmitting perfectly legally on these frequencies. The Aid Call Touchsafe R range is the only wireless alarm system that uses the dedicated 869 Mhz Pan European alarm channel to ensure there won’t be interference from such unregulated devices.

This year Aid Call is celebrating thirty years as the leading designers, manufacturers and installers of radio based alarm systems. They understand that no two hospital wards are the same and have created a range of products to suit every business environment. Wireless technology is flexible and quick to install with the minimum of fuss or disruption for patients, unlike hardwired that requires large amounts of cabling.  A wireless system can be installed and running quickly and efficiently without losing any functionality and features from a traditional hard wired system but with the added benefit of complete flexibility providing significant cost savings.

With Aid Call there is always the reassurance that you are dealing with a company who really understand your hospital market needs. In response to requests from their customers, they were the first, wireless system manufacturer to ensure that every touchable element has anti-microbial protection as standard. Some systems on the market still utilise parts that require touch, but that aren’t anti-microbially treated, this can lead to the very real risk of infection, which in a hospital environment can be potentially lethal.

Even more impressive is the fact that Aid Call’s Touchsafe R range is the only wireless nurse call alarm system you can install that meets the rigorous safety standards demanded of Class 1 certification. Class 1 compliance is a regulatory requirement for ‘safety critical’ wireless systems, devised to ensure patients are never put at risk. It is vital that any alarm supplier conforms to the industry’s guidelines. Surprisingly, not all suppliers see fit to comply with these vital safety standards.

You can’t put a price on the safety of your patients, but you can ensure the efficiency of your system saves you money: peace of mind for you and peace of mind for your patients! Don’t take the risk, talk to Aid Call first!

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