Stop the bleeding of nurses leaving using asset tracking

Daniel Faurlin

June 11, 2020

医疗保健提供商需要利用技术, 比如资产跟踪, to prevent equipment loss and free nurses and others from administrative tasks

管理而不是照顾

在这次大流行前几个月, I had a conversation about healthcare with a colleague who mentioned his spouse was quitting the nursing profession. 但她为什么要放弃自己热爱的职业呢? It was because she spent more time pushing paper and asset tracking than caregiving.

This shocked me, but didn’t surprise me because I had run into this a year earlier. 在与一位德高望重的美国人会面时.S. heart surgeon, he indicated that his nursing staff needed four hours to input each patient’s data into their healthcare records system - a frustrating exercise for everyone involved.

我开始看到一条共同的线索. Nurses spending time on administrative duties instead of spending time with patients. Nurses who are the face of healing are increasingly required to spend time away from their patients. Even though efficiency in finding information was gained through digital patient records, maintaining that information for healthcare providers as well as insurance companies has added to the workload in the healthcare system.

医疗保健提供商需要利用技术, 比如资产跟踪, to prevent equipment loss and free nurses and others from administrative tasks

More than one hour per day is spent looking for people and equipment

除了数小时的数据录入, a lot of time is spent looking for needed equipment or clinicians, whether doctors, nurses, 执业护士甚至助手. All entered their respective professions to help treat and heal people. They didn’t enter their professions to spend hours doing data entry or paperwork.

However, this is the reality as health insurance providers and insurance companies, alike, require that every detail of a patient’s care pathway is logged, 编码并适当收费.

除了文书工作, nurses have their regular patients to see and usually need medical equipment such as heart rate monitors, infusion pumps, ventilators, 以及非医疗设备，如移动床, 轮椅之类的. In fact, nurses spend more than one hour per 12-hour shift looking for someone—such as a doctor or patient, or something such as medical/non-medical equipment.

So how can Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise help nurses reclaim some of this time away from patients?

ALE Asset Tracking reduces stress and wasted time

ALE has technology that drastically reduces the amount of time a nurse requires to find people or equipment down to minutes or even seconds.

The 阿尔卡特朗讯全接入恒星资产跟踪 solution displays locations of people and equipment on a floor plan map, with three to five meters accuracy using Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) asset tags. Stellar Asset Tracking interoperates with OmniAccess Stellar Wi-Fi or any third-party Wi-Fi infrastructure to locate assets in real-time.

Stellar Asset Tracking also enables hospitals to locate their equipment and maintain it properly—a multi, million-dollars cost savings for hospitals through prevention of equipment becoming lost, stolen, 或者维护不当.

用智能手机应用程序的简单性, a nurse can see the location of all tracked clinicians, patients and equipment and reserve the equipment they need, knowing it will be tagged so no one else can reserve it until that same nurse has designated the equipment as available again. The ability to save nurses time makes their jobs a little easier and helps hospitals improve patient care delivery by enabling nurses to spend more time with patients.

Asset tracking plays a small, but important role in helping reduce wasted time and stress on nurses. Our technology can be used to stop nurses and others from leaving their profession and give them back the time they want to spend with their patients.

Learn more in the 医疗保健中的资产跟踪 brochure.