To meet workplace environmental, health, and safety (EHS) guidelines in the current healthcare climate of extreme nursing shortages, healthcare facility managers can leverage remote temperature and critical area-access monitoring to ensure that operations remain efficient and safe.
Here's how automated systems can track, capture, and provide precision information on key assets and critical workspaces while meeting today's workplace safety recommendations.
Environmental Monitoring and Staff Shortages
The current healthcare climate combines nursing shortages with heightened demand for patient care that can be challenging for any facility operations. The need for increase caseloads can strain facility monitoring activities that rely on manual checks and data logging. Fortunately, there are automated solutions that can alleviate the stress of environmental monitoring and provide reliable EHS solutions.
Automated monitoring systems such as OneVue Sense® allow facility managers and relevant staff to navigate these changes while ensuring the integrity of medications, vaccines, as well as the safety of personnel, patients, and visitors.
Temperature Assurance Where and When You Need It
For clinical teams charged with keeping key assets properly stored, the importance of temperature monitoring is already a priority. With the additional challenges created by staffing shortages, the ability to monitor and assess temperature settings remotely is becoming a highly valuable solution.
When combined, the aging population skyrocketing the demand for patient care and the nursing shortage makes healthcare automation technology that much more important. Healthcare facilities can look to a remote temperature monitoring system to alleviate staff burden, giving nurses and technicians time back for other more critical duties.
OneVue Sense provides a solution that can help remotely monitor environmental conditions of laboratory and healthcare settings with automated temperature monitoring technology. The portable devices are easy to install in medical storage units (including refrigerators) and can alert staff to temperature variances and capture the data for on-demand reporting through the cloud-based OneVue® software platform. The monitoring solutions provide reliable, highly accurate data with calibrated probes and thermobuffers that simulate the actual temperature of refrigerated assets and minimize false sensor readings from minor fluctuations. The OneVue Sense solution eliminates the need to manually record data and allows you to confirm the integrity of controlled areas, freeing up caregiver bandwidth to spend more time with patients.
Usable on any device with a web browser, the OneVue software platform provides data that can be accessed anywhere, anytime, and by anyone who may need access to it. This allows you to both reduce the number of staff required to be present to monitor sensitive assets and to more easily monitor assets during the off-hours of your facility — including nights, weekends, and more. This allows both caregiving staff and facility managers to rest easy knowing that medication, biohazards, and more will not fall out of compliance requirements by alerting staff to the need for a physical check-in.
Managing Personnel Traffic in Restricted Access Areas
Some distancing protocols may still remain since the COVID-19 pandemic, causing limited traffic within restricted areas. Fortunately, monitoring access to these areas can also be done remotely with OneVue Sense Contact Closure monitoring. These small, reliable units use magnetic strips connected to a monitor that can measure and record the opening and closing of the contacts. They are easy to install on doors, cabinets, and refrigeration units. When used with the OneVue software, this technology can reduce on-site personnel without compromising patient care or staff safety.
Meeting Temperature Monitoring Challenges With Confidence
All the OneVue Sense monitoring solutions meet the compliance guidelines set by the CDC and other governing bodies. OneVue Sense technology can be easily installed and moved while offering multiple power options including battery, AC, and Power over Ethernet (PoE) making them an ideal solution for changing workplace protocols. With OneVue Sense, maintaining EHS guidelines and meeting compliance standards can be done accurately through remote precision temperature monitoring and comprehensive documentation.
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