Digital Health January 11, 2022
While single-bed rooms for patients offer privacy and dignity, Hayley Valentine, a former critical care nurse and a clinical consultant for Ascom, explores the challenges ahead for nursing ever larger numbers of patients in their own rooms.
The pandemic has highlighted a great number of things that many of us previously took for granted, both personally and professionally. For nurses, the ability to communicate with ease is one such thing. With colleagues, with patients, with relatives. All of which, it seems, was aided significantly by traditional multi-bay wards.
Because when we moved away from Nightingale-style wards and added isolation measures for infection control, we also turned all those previously easy to have, face-to-face conversations into phone calls, pager bleeps and...
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