From coast to coast, nurses have begun using two-way baby monitors to interact with isolated patients showing symptoms associated with COVID-19.
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Stacy Alves, a nurse at the South Sacramento Medical Center, said baby monitors are "a great example of nursing innovation with our front-line staff." "We started brainstorming: what’s the best way to get something to scale that’s easy to use and won’t require a whole lot of training?" Dr. Stephen Parodi, an executive vice president at Kaiser Permanente, said."So when one of our team members suggested baby monitors -- she’s a mom herself -- we said, ‘Wow, that’s not a bad idea.
"The staff immediately were uncomfortable with the idea of not being able to communicate at will with their patients," said Johnson."We talked about pulling in a contractor to install permanent video cameras, but even that doesn’t allow the two-way communication." "We were able to implement the monitors and immediately establish a line of sight with our patients, as well as two-way communications so they could easily, say, ask for a blanket without having to open the door every time," Johnson said.
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