The technology of hand hygiene teletracking redefines infection control standards in hospitals New Cross -
New Cross Hospital, part of The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, today announced a hygiene observations of a step used teletracking million using technology, automated hygiene of the sensor Inc. under the program "safe hands. This compares to only 0 visual observations over the same period of time.
Safe Hands is an effort funded by the government with real-time location system (RTLS) technology to improve staff compliance to reduce the threat of antibiotic resistant HCAIs, which develops globally, according to World health Organization (WHO).
Program Manager, Clare Nash, RN, says that over the past nine months, the trust badged almost 4000 employees, all inpatients and more than 1226 assets. Find a tagged asset now takes only 25 seconds, which means that patients receive treatment or intervention in a timely manner. RTLS also provides good cleaning of equipment. Saving time means a planned preventive maintenance (PMM) and equipment safely and respect NHSLA.
"It is a technological system vanguard," said Nash, and continues to make improvements to already excellent standards of prevention of hospital infections.
the system is "the largest of its kind in a hospital in the world" and "a revolutionary breakthrough in health care," she said.
system teletracking also tracks the role of each badged member of staff who come into contact with an infected patient. Nash recalled a case at the beginning of the program, an infected patient has come into contact with members of the hospital staff, other patients and mobile medical assets 217 times before the diagnosis was made.
"This is why it is so difficult to contain norovirus and C. diff," she said of the number of registered contacts. "I'm so surprised by the power of these data. it shows us how important it is to get a patient infected isolated as soon as possible. "
In addition to monitoring the hygiene of the business to scale, the RTLS- based technology locates teletracking equipment throughout the Trust, generates status bed available, and monitoring of patients and staff locations automatically and in real time. whiteboards and magnets have been replaced by touch-42 inch computer screens that show in real time on a floor plan graphic, equipment, patients, staff.
Whenever the equipment is moved, a patient leaves a pupil, or a staff member washes his hands - the system knows teletracking. Alerts go if a patient has not been seen for more than an hour, or if a patient is in an isolated place more than 20 minutes. Location and time data is sent to computer touch screens in every department.
Infection prevention and control nurses used to spend an hour or more contacts and patient monitoring patients locations for analysis cause. Now they can run a report to access information with the click of a button.
Cheryl Etches, Chief Nursing Officer, added, "I now have access to lots of information on issues of safety and patient experience. The potential of this system offers is phenomenal and can basically support the framework of our organization. "
using the real-time locations to automate patient bed occupancy and landfills, New Cross Hospital has a direct in-bed state. Nearly 75 percent of released patients now leave their . wrist badges in a drop box before leaving the hospital, which automatically triggers the household to clean empty beds beds are now becoming available for new patients in less than 40 minutes. - who's the time need to inform a maid and clean a room
originally exclusively for monitoring hand washing, Nash said administrators quickly realized the greater potential of teletracking system. reports data in detail the hours of care provided to individual patients, by individuals or groups of employees. this can be triangulated with the patient, the severity, the risk falls, etc. the staff found that this function is the most important, followed closely by the patient's condition at a glance.
Nash said this reporting capability supports precise costs for services, forecasting and planning for future staffing levels, and informed dialogue with the Trust Commissioners.
"the system allows the most efficient hospital," Nash said, because "there is no need to walk to see if the tasks were performed." This allows caregivers more time to spend with patients.
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