With hospital stays for patients getting shorter more and more pressure is faced by the home health and hospice care providers to provide increased service, often without expanded budgets. By focusing on improved operational efficiencies and relationship-based care, PSWs and visiting nurses can tailor their plans to their patients’ needs, their cultural customs, values and their preferences with greater ease if leveraging mobility.
With Mobile Employee Connect, organizations will always have full visibility into where their PSWs are located. Via GPS time stamping and location mapping, head office can calculate the mileage between patient sites and the time spent commuting. If a last minute patient visit is requested, head office can send the closest, qualified PSW and at minimal operating costs.
With Personal Support Workers and Nurses working remotely in patient’s homes and health centers, real-time visibility into schedules, assignments and care plans shouldn’t be an option, it must be the norm if organizations are going to maximize their operational efficiency.
Quality patient care should be the top priority of PSWs and RNs. Having care plans, assessment forms and other vital data available on a mobile device empowers employees to make the right decisions for their patients and simultaneously reducing the amount of organizational paperwork and data entry.
Employees need to be protected in the field. The ability for an employee to request for assistance through a silent alarm can be the difference between a safe resolution and disaster. As well, escalating alerts for missed check ins can provide an added layer of employee safety.