Oct 09, 11 02:16PM
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At work, we have Voceras. They are little phones that we wear around our necks. We use them to call each other, other departments, take phone calls. They were a little annoying at first and kind of hard to get used to using, but now we all use them every day and I personally have [...]
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Sign in nowSorry, Gina. Not much of a break was it? So sorry. As an aside, not sure about the do not disturb feature…it silences vocera to vocera calls, but don’t know if it will silence the monitor alarms.
What an unhappy way to hear about the patient and family with whom you had bonded and shared so much with. I am grateful they had a nurse like you to care for and about them.
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Unlike having a cellphone (which I’m unsure is a good thing as we get more and more connected, and more and more distracted). I think the vyocera’s are a good thing. Sorry to hear you lost your patient on what was supposed to be “You” time, but it sounds like it might end up making your job easier in the end. :)
Good luck Gina!
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Vocera sounds like amazing technology, but that’s almost like getting a text message someone died. It’s just… cold.
Our ER started using a kinda of walkie talk like system. Everyone had to wear one and when you talked on it every one including patients could hear what was being said. Slowly everyone began to stop using them. Now their talking about us using head gear I personally think that Vocera sounds much better and feel that I might look into it more and possibly speak to the ER manager about it.
unfortunately we don’t have a device like Vocera in hospital that i am job training right now.
I call ours the “voscary”, used it for years, at first GREAT…then they started to not work so well…BTW, ours responds with a “beam me up Scotty” command!!
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We’ve used voceras for a while now on a tele floor (long enough to get them all replaced), and I had no idea you could tie them into monitors. Will definitely bring that up for discussion.
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I’m not a nurse but I’ve spent a lot of time at the hospital with my grandparents that have been sick a lot lately. I’ve seen the nurses wearing the “walkie talkie” looking things and it seemed like it worked really well for them. While walking around to find Susie Q RN does give you great exercise, I can imagine it would suck to do that alot lol. Sorry to hear about your patient. Although maybe it’s just me but it almost seemed like your co-worker was cold hearted when you told her your patient died. I know it wasn’t a family member of yours but I would think if it’s your patient there is still some type of emotional connection and would be like loosing a friend. Seems like “ah thats to bad” or “I’m sorry to hear that” would have been a better response. :(
I’ve experienced something similar while being on my lunch break. I had a patient go unstable, and had to rush out and transfer the patient to ICU. Scary experience, but learned a great deal fromit.