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Chapter 5
Staff/duty stations
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Overview of staff/duty stations
Smart Staff/Duty Stations are major Telligence System tools that
permit staff members to send nurse call alerts to staff consoles and
annunciators. They also allow communications with staff who are
responding to these nurse call alerts.
Figure 34: Smart Staff Duty Station (Model HC-DUTY)
Basic functions
Communicating with the nursing station
A staff/duty station is similar to a patient station, except that it has
no receptacles or plugs for beds and other equipment. Staff/duty
stations are used solely by staff members to call the nursing station.
Like patient stations they are equipped with speaker phones and
command buttons. One staff/duty station can cannunciate call
activity for a single duty area or an area equal to a staff console
coverage area.
Forwarding nurse calls from room to room
In duty mode, a staff/duty station annunciates nurse calls and
reminders associated with other rooms. When a staff member
enters a room and registers presence, the staff station emits tones
indicating active nurse calls and reminders. This is called staff follow,
and the tones are called staff follow tones. Some stations are
configured to remain in duty mode. These are called permanent
duty stations. Other staff/duty stations can be switched from one
mode to the other by a staff member.