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RF Technologies, a provider of RFID monitoring systems and healthcare monitoring solutions, has installed its Safe Place Paediatric and Infant Security Solution at ProHealth Care's Waukesha Memorial Hospital to help protect infants and children from abduction.
The tertiary care hospital's staff delivers around 2,300 babies per year.
Peace of mind
The Safe Place system was installed in the maternity and paediatric units of the hospital. A lightweight transmitter is placed around a child's ankle or wrist. This allows the staff to monitor the child's whereabouts within the protected area. The transmitter sends a signal to receivers placed throughout the hospital.
If the band is tampered with, or if the infant or child is too close to a doorway, an alarm will sound. Hospital doors also immediately lock down. The system also allows the hospital's staff to generate a variety of customised reports to help reduce alarms and to be ready for Joint Commission reviews at the touch of a button.
ACLS course
Ongoing training Staff education and training were conducted over a one-week period with follow-up training 90 days later. Practice abduction drills also took place. As time goes on, the hospital will have additional practice abduction drills so its staff maintains its familiarity with the system.
In order to assist its nurses as well as others in the area, ProHealth Care has partnered with RF Technologies to provide an Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support certification course, which has been developed with OB nurses in mind. RF Technologies partnered with the clinical instruction team from St. Luke's Meridian Medical centre of Boise, Idaho, to provide the actual training.
Source: RF Technologies
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