An Interview With A Health Care Leader Who Selected,...

In order for our current health care system to keep growing and reaching new heights technological advancement are necessary. Patients are doing their own research to find hospital facilities with clinicians that are using advanced new technologies to diagnose and treat with minimally invasive procedures that have recovery time, less pain and better outcomes. Advances in health care technology are contributions from nurses, physicians, patients and other health care professionals. Technology used in health care is used by clinicians to provide safe, effective and efficient care in order to have better patient outcomes. With the help of technology clinicians are able to gather patient information better for research, treatments, and†¦show more content†¦Hundreds of thousands of patients fall in the hospital every year in the United States with at least 30-50 percent resulting in injury (The Joint Commission, 2015). Sam stated on average a typical patient who suffers a fall ad ds an extra 6-7 days to their hospital stay (The Joint Commission, 2015). Selection Sam states her â€Å"Epiphany† came when the hospital was in the transition to change old hospital beds to new Versa care beds. Sam states she was sitting in the auditorium listening to the Representative of Versa care bed talk about all of its functions and capabilities and â€Å"it just hit me†/ Versa care beds are supposed to be the â€Å"Cadillac† of hospital beds and it also had an option to link bed alarms to the call bell system which can be programmable to every spectra link phone being used on a given nursing unit. Sam stated as soon as the presentation was over, she ran to the representative and asked if it was possible for the Versa care bed to community with our Hill-Rom call bell system and when she heard it was possible she nearly jumped. Sam was thinking that if a patient gets up from the bed and the bed alarm starts to ring, clinicians at that time try to listen and respond to where the noise might be coming from which takes