No--they usually beep and buzz loudly, especially when they are not working properly, which is usually 98% or the time. Use the money to add to nurse staffing and we won't need to yell out for each other when we need help,but there's nobody in sight anywhere.

Kay has a point. I think if they are working with silence, with no disturbance then it will definitely grow.

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Simon Perl

Nursing Employment

At the hospital I worked for we also used SpectraLink and they were nice. The nurses enjoyed them and I had the occassion to use one when I would make my rounds gathering EKG information from the floors. We were a small Cardiac unit so the only times the nurses really needed them was when they would return patients after testing, to get STAT ER orders.  They worked well.  But I do agree with Kay as well. 

We have a device that sounds like the spectralink, but maybe ours is not as reliable.  Plus they add alot of noise to the floor.  I guess my favorite thing about it is that I can call telemetry and get an immediate report.   Our device is little, smaller than a cell phone and it attaches to my scrub top with a special clip, so not so bulkey as radios.

I have a friend that uses the vocera badges/phones and she said that it has greatly reduced overhead paging and really facilitated the communication in her hospital. www.vocera.com/products/devices.aspx.

ditto

Even if the badges are small light weight and work well we could still work well with more staff.

 THere is no confusion in it that new nursing commnication devices are really helpful to cut down the noise.

we should introdce such equipments for further improvement.