Nightingale Smart Phone Application
Productivity and notification smartphone application as an alternative to paging. Works seamlessly across WiFi and GSM for within and outside facilities.
Key Features
Improve workflow efficiency
Immediate nurse call system alerts to screen
Accept, reject and escalate nurse call alarms
Voice connection to compatible bedhead Vitalcare voice points
Works inside and outside facilities (Seamless Wi-Fi & GSM connectivity)
Low cost Android hardware
Nightingale Smart Phone Application
Nightingale is a facility productivity application designed to connect carers and managers with patients to improve workflow efficiency. Nightingale delivers nurse call activations along with task requests directly to carers. The application runs on standard non-proprietary smartphone hardware and combines a range of traditional device functions historically only available on pagers or DECT phones with new functionality like task allocation, escalation, resident notes and voice connectivity.
Connectivity
Nightingale provides connectivity to the nurse call system both on-site and off–site supporting Wi-Fi and GSM networks. This is ideal for larger campuses where there is not reliable widespread Wi-Fi, or where only a combination of Wi-Fi and GSM provides cover. Voice connectivity directly to the Vitalcare voice call point is also supported with Nightingale. This feature provides immediately voice connectivity to a residents bedhead voice call point and the ability for carers to triage and prioritise nurse call alarms. This increases personnel efficiency and optimises response priority.
Mobile Device Management
The use of smartphones in health and aged care facilities is growing at a fast rate. While smartphone provide a range of valuable productivity tools, they also present new challenges for management ensuring that special software and operating systems are correctly installed, configured and used appropriately.
To ensure that smartphone configuration is properly managed, Vitalcare provide Mobile Device Management, referred to as MDM. MDM prevents enthusiastic and often well-meaning personnel from changing settings or software on facility phones, potentially affecting critical messaging performance and workflow.
MDM is a service where by Vitalcare customer service staff remotely manage all aspects of facility smartphone configuration. This includes:
- What applications can be added to the device:
- Facility wide installation of applications on many devices;
- What or when application data can be imported or exported;
- What access to the internet or networks the smart device and its applications is permitted;
- Securing data on devices for recently departed employees;
- What Operating System updates are permitted – especially important when such updates may affect key critical messaging applications; and
- Controlled installation of new or specialist applications.
Read more about Mobile Device Management here
MDM can be provided on compatible devices running Nightingale and managed by Vitalcare’s customer service team.
This service improves security, productivity and ensures only authorised applications are used on facility smartphones.
Why did we choose to name the application ‘Nightingale’?
A brief distraction
We named this smartphone application after Florence Nightingale who is widely considered to be the founder of modern nursing. She was a most remarkable person.
- Credited as the inventor of the modern nurse call concept by placing a small bell by the bed in the 1850’s – hence the reference to ‘call bell’ that survives to this day and the source of one of her most famous quotes “Without a system of this kind, the nurse is converted into a pair of legs for running up and down stairs”. Our application is the latest incarnation of her call bell.
- Florence was not really a nurse at all, or even that interested in nursing. Florence is more accurately defined as a ‘mathematician who was fascinated by statistics’.
- She produced the first statistical analysis of the effectiveness of hygiene during the Crimean war by producing a polar diagram illustrating that if simple acts of cleanliness were followed, soldiers would get better quicker to be returned to the front line faster.
- Florence was the first women elected as a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society in London in 1858. A major achievement in a most misogynistic time!
Vitalcare embodies Florence’s disciplined approach to analysis and we consider it in everything we do.
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Easy to download and use
The Nightingale App runs on standard Android devices and is available through the Google Play store.
Solutions
Vitalcare provides nurse call platforms and critical messaging technology engineered to improve communication, workflow efficiencies, patient care and safety for hospitals, aged care facilities, home care and allied health across Australia and New Zealand. Key features of the platform include wired, wireless and hybrid infrastructure with voice assistant, RTLS, open API integration, enterprise reporting and tools, and industry-leading software. The entire network infrastructure is modular and scalable with in-built active redundancy.
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Aged Care Solutions
Allied Health Solutions
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