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Wireless phone systems help hospitals improve patient care. The state of the health care industry today is a common topic of concern. In addition, health care providers continually strive to improve medical services. As a provider, this is a challenge you face daily in an increasingly fast-paced environment where lives are on the line. Obtaining your goals undoubtedly requires streamlined communications between doctors, nurses, and numerous staff members. The need for mobility within the hospital with the reliance on desk phones, pagers, and overhead paging makes communicating difficult at best. Moreover, when communicating is difficult, reaching those goals must be difficult as well.
This translates into many benefits such as: |
| Improve Patient Care |
| Efficient communications is key to premium patient care. Typically, when a nurse needs a consult from a doctor, the nurse pages the doctor. Now the nurse is tied to the phone waiting for the doctor to call. If the nurse misses the doctor’s return call, the doctor must be put on hold or called again. By the time the nurse is located, the doctor may no longer be on the phone, so the paging cycle begins again. This creates wasted time, adds distractions from patient care, and causes frustration for doctors and nurses. With a WWCC business solution phone, calls get through directly. Wireless phones can eliminate this problem for pharmacists, respiratory therapists, and many other medical personnel. |
| Maximize Efficiency |
| Time is no longer wasted by doctor and nurse telephone tag as described above. Plus, when someone is “tracked down” in the hospital, the caller and the searcher lose time. Locating the appropriate nurse or doctor can be a difficult and frustrating process. With a WWCC wireless business solutions phone, calls go directly to the person. That means doctors and nurses can spend more time attending to patients. |
| Maximize Emergency Room Effectiveness |
| Most emergency rooms have a wall phone. In critical situations, someone in the ER must stop performing a crucial task in order to walk to the phone and make a necessary call. When quick transfer of a patient to another ward is required, communications is temporarily stalled until the location is reached. Wireless phones offer communications with hospital support units for “on-the run” situations. |
| Speed Response Time |
| Certain hospital staff—such as surgeons—need to be contacted immediately in critical cases. The traditional way to reach these people is by a page. Pagers, however, have limited messaging and allow only one-way communications. The doctor must race to a phone to call for more information. Wireless phones offer instant communications in critical situations. |
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