Remote Safety Monitoring: Calling a Halt to Violence Against Health Workers
By Patricia A. Quigley, PhD, MPH, MS, APRN Earlier this summer I attended a webinar presented by the National Quality...
A special AvaTalk blog: Our salute to two RNs and those they have chosen to assist
Today is National Nurses Day, which typically kicks off a weeklong celebration, culminating with the anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birthday....
AvaSure gets double duty as support for staff, patients, and families during pandemic
As COVID-19 increases in scale, morbidity and mortality, many health systems and hospitals have been redeploying their TeleSitters to monitor...
Reducing stress on caregivers, patients and families in a crisis
UPDATE 8/19/2020 Many hospitals have taken advantage of AvaSure’s offer of an additional, free monitor station software licenses, which allows...
New systematic review published in Annals of Internal Medicine finds video monitoring as a more effective patient safety strategy than 1:1 sitters
Bedside "Sitters", often used for patients at high risk for falls, have been deemed expensive, and their effectiveness unclear. Annals...
How Sentara Healthcare reduced patient falls and generated nearly $900K in savings
To address the challenge of patient falls and the cost associated with it, most hospitals assign staff to sit in...