Bedside "Sitters", often used for patients at high risk for falls, have been deemed expensive, and their effectiveness unclear. Annals...
To address the challenge of patient falls and the cost associated with it, most hospitals assign staff to sit in...
By Melanie C. Dreher, Patricia Quigley, Catherine Rick and Marla J. Weston More than 20 years after the publication of...
This strategy can benefit both nurses and patients. By Patricia A. Quigley, PhD, MPH, MS, APRN; Lisbeth Votruba, MSN, RN;...
Workplace violence (WPV) across all industries, including health care, continues to increase in the United States. The National Institute for...
Covenant Health Plainview is committed to promoting and protecting the health and wellbeing of all patients. Because of this, the...
Covenant has a new way to keep an eye on patients in rooms—even when nurses aren’t there. It’s called “telesitter.”...
For many years, healthcare facilities hired “patient sitters” to watch patients at risk for falls or in harm situations. But...
When a patient in the hospital requires 24/7 monitoring — due to a risk of falling, for example — someone...
Beebe has launched advanced technology in the form of “telesitters,” which are video monitoring devices that transmit patient images to...