Features of Care Home Nurse Call Systems: How they provide Better Care for Residents

Nurse call systems for care homes are some of the most important pieces of care technology that nursing home staff and carers will have access to, as well as being some of the most common. Providing resident care, management of staff, and reporting functionality all in one succinct package, nurse call systems for care homes contribute a significant amount when utilised correctly. This article will delve into all of the different alerts and features that make up our products, including how these nurse call systems for care homes work, and what all of the different alarms mean to the nurse and to the resident both.

What do Nurse Call Systems in Care Homes look like?

Nurse call systems in care homes are similar in nature to other nurse call products in our range, being pieces of healthcare technology that are designed to alert nurses or staff to the immediate care needs of a resident. Nurse call systems for care homes, for example, our own Connect System or Altra Care solutions, have been built for the bespoke needs of the care home environment. 

Within these nurse call systems, you will find unique features and accessories such as watch mats, which activate when a resident gets out of bed, or out of a chair – as well as more expected features like room and bathroom unit call buttons, management touchscreens, and call lights (among others).  

What are some of the different parts of these Nurse Call Systems?

Our nurse call systems for care homes function as a detailed network of different components that work together to assist nurses. A series of interfaces, buttons, screens, and assistive technologies – all of which we will explore further in the following section:

Call Buttons

Call buttons are one of the most integral parts of a nurse call system for care homes, being a panel of easily-accessible buttons that allow the resident to call for assistance when required. Call buttons will usually be seen around the beds/living quarters of residents, as well as in bathrooms, and can also come in a pull cord style.

Touch Screens

All of Courtney Thorne’s nurse call system products make use of wireless, touch screen technology; incorporating Altra Touch or Connect Touch screens throughout your care home facility. These touch screens can be used by your staff to access real time reports, monitor residents from afar, and log all call data with ease. 

Assistive Technology

All of our nurse call systems for care homes also make use of various forms of assistive technologies, to allow for even more attentive and accurate monitoring from your nurses and staff. Taking the form of watch mats that are placed around the beds and furnishings of your resident’s room, these mats will activate when triggered by the resident, alerting your nurses to any potential falls quickly and efficiently. 

Pagers & Wearables

With our Altra Care and Connect Systems, you will also be able to make use of watch wearables and pagers, that allow your staff another avenue of being alerted and directed to any potential calls from residents. Through the seamless integration of our products, nurses can even use their smartphones for a similar purpose, as well as a way of accessing resident reports and call logs right from their pockets.

Call Lights

Nurse call lights are one of the simpler features of our nurse call systems for care homes, but an important one nonetheless. Strategically-placed outside of residents rooms and in the corridors of your facility, nurse call lights are a quick and obvious method of alerting your nurses and staff to the calls of residents.

How these Nurse Call System features provide Better Care

Within care home environments, there is a veritable mountain of data that needs to be taken into account when trying to provide the highest standard of care possible for your residents, as well as myriad reasons why a resident might be calling for help. From the administering of medication, responding to accidents and falls, general ambient temperature and room hygiene needs, and food and hydration requests – as nurses, your staff need to be able to jump on any of these requests at a moment’s notice. Our nurse call systems for care homes help staff provide better care by:

Helping decision making

Our nurse call systems for care homes take all of these factors into account with their design, allowing for any eventuality to be handled. Through intuitive care planning solutions, as well as a detailed system of alerts and alarms; our systems make sure every resident in your home receives the attentive level of care that they need. Through wearable technologies, pagers, and powerful smartphone integration, our nurse call systems for care homes make sure that your staff are always one click away from responding to resident’s needs. 

Providing better reporting

With our CT Cloud Remote Reporting technology, your staff also have the data recording and analysis tools required to predict scenarios, providing cleaner decision-making that is based on real-time events, rather than guesswork. Our reporting technology also makes it much easier for your nurses to make note of all events and calls, showing valuable information regarding who made the calls, who responded, the time calls were made, and more – all at the click of a button, or a tap of a screen.

Alerting staff

Alongside all of these features, our nurse call systems for care homes also make use of assistive technologies like watch mats, as well as strategically-implemented nurse call lights, call buttons, and pull cords. With all of these features, your residents have a variety of options in terms of how they can reach out to your nurses and alert them to their needs as quickly as possible. And in doing so, our systems help to catch the attention of your staff no matter where they are in your facility and divert their attention back towards residents in a way that is meaningful and unobtrusive. 

Through this article, you should have a much better idea as to what goes into a nurse call system for care homes. Nurse call systems for care homes, such as the Connect System and Altra Care solutions, are designed to meet the specific needs of the care home environment by incorporating a range of features and accessories, such as nurse call buttons, CT Cloud Remote Reporting technology, assistive technology and wearables.

Overall, all of these features of nurse call systems for care homes ensure that residents can easily reach out for help and that staff can provide timely and effective care. If you have an interest in implementing any of our products in your care home facility, then make sure to get in touch with us over on our Contact page. You may also find some valuable information on our Support hub, that can take you through how our products are installed by way of How To Videos, as well as answering some FAQs.

Written by

Barry Vacher

Date

03.07.24