As COVID-19 increases in scale, morbidity and mortality, many health systems and hospitals have been redeploying their TeleSitters to monitor and interact with patients being treated for the incredibly contagious […]
Strategies for Mitigating the Impact of Coronavirus on Your Health System As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread throughout the United States, healthcare organizations are being forced to respond to […]
In many medical circumstances, clinicians and caregivers may choose to not leave a patient alone. For example, a patient may present a fall risk, experience confusion and agitation, or be […]
UPDATE 8/19/2020 Many hospitals have taken advantage of AvaSure’s offer of an additional, free monitor station software licenses, which allows healthcare facilities to establish additional localized command centers, empowering clinical […]
As coronavirus continues to spread across the U.S., experts say the outbreak is revealing the healthcare industry inability to control infections at its own facilities or protect employees. Modern Healthcare […]
Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital implements the TeleSitter to provide a safer and higher experience of patient care, by allowing their nurses and Patient Care Associates (PCAs) to spend more time […]
Bedside “Sitters”, often used for patients at high risk for falls, have been deemed expensive, and their effectiveness unclear. Annals of Internal Medicine reviewed evidence, and compared the effects of […]
To address the challenge of patient falls and the cost associated with it, most hospitals assign staff to sit in high fall risk patients’ rooms. Sitters have never been proven […]
By Melanie C. Dreher, Patricia Quigley, Catherine Rick and Marla J. Weston More than 20 years after the publication of the Institute of Medicine’s seminal report “To Err is Human” […]
This strategy can benefit both nurses and patients. By Patricia A. Quigley, PhD, MPH, MS, APRN; Lisbeth Votruba, MSN, RN; and Jill Kaminski, MS Healthcare workers are four times more […]
