Nurse
As a nurse in obstetrics, providing hands-on, compassionate and quality care for your patients is your prime objective. However, daily administrative tasks often pull you away from the bedside, reducing the amount of time you can spend with your patients.
To help you meet your objectives, CALM's easy to use Clinical Information System and OB Guidance tools enable you to perform your administrative and clinical tasks faster and more effectively � allowing you to deliver the best care possible to your patients.
How?
- Do away with redundant charting by entering information just once in any screen. With CALM your information will be available in an organized manner through all relevant views.
- Spend more time with patients while improving accuracy and completeness of your documentation by entering data directly into CALM at the bedside as events occur and information is gathered.
- Personalize your patient views. Through CALM's organized interface you will be presented with information based on your preferences and work method � allowing you to get to the information you need fast.
- Decrease time spent running around in search of documents. Information entered into CALM can be available to you no matter where you are � bedside, nurse's station, or any other onsite workstation.
- CALM's archiving capabilities ensure the information will be stored and available based on your hospital's guidelines.
Ensuring consistency of care and patient safety is paramount to you and your hospital. This can be a challenge as patient loads increase, nursing shortages persist and workload varies due to the nature of obstetrics. With CALM's surveillance and alerts in place you can effectively manage your patients and maintain a high standard of care at all times.
How?
- Monitor several patients at once through CALM's central monitoring capabilities. CALM provides multiple types of views (beds, fetal tracings and labor progress curves) all in a single screen, enabling you to view the status of all your patients and quickly identify a patient in need.
- Rapidly view the progress of a specific patient by using CALM's single click navigation to move from a global view to a full screen patient-specific view - in an instant.
- Keep track of patient status as you move around the unit. With CALM you can monitor from any location: the patient's bedside, a central location or remotely.
- Multitask. Use CALM's split screen view to chart and view other screens while maintaining a watchful eye on your patients.
Being able to think on your feet is central to your profession. Throughout the day, your judgment is called upon to make important patient decisions. This can be especially stressful when your patient's labor is not progressing normally. Through your vigilant surveillance, you must determine if this is one of those rare events that could lead to serious implications for mother and baby if you fail to intervene or escalate in a timely manner. The CALM Curve™ and CALM Patterns™ OB Guidance tools assists you in labor and delivery by offering you an embedded second opinion for the diagnosis of labor dystocia, providing unprecedented clarity about the progress of labor � and the assessment of fetal heart rate patterns.
How?
- Dynamically identify labor dystocia and associated risk of adverse outcomes. By employing the CALM Curve, you obtain a continuous assessment of the mother's labor progress based on medical and hospital guidelines.
- Continuously monitor and analyze to identify the fetus at risk of oxygen deprivation. By employing CALM Patterns, you obtain a constant assessment of the fetus' fetal heart rate patterns - baseline, variability, accelerations and decelerations - and a classification of the tracing by risk level as defined by hospital standards.
- Proactively identify patients at risk of shoulder dystocia. By using CALM Shoulder Screen™, you can assess the risk of shoulder dystocia with injury from 36 weeks of gestation onward, enabling you to assess the mother's risk profile during registration into the OB unit.
- Improve communication with your team members. CALM OB Guidance tools™ provide you and your team with a standard and agreed upon means of interpreting and communicating risk and progress in labor. By way of clear visuals and percentiles CALM adds confidence and clarity and a common vocabulary for patient evaluations.
- See the effectiveness of your actions. CALM Curve graphically plots the progress of your patient as each new pelvic exam is performed, comparing it to the mean and outer limits of a reference population. This feedback on the impact of your interventions allows you to adapt your course of action as needed.
As a Nurse Manager, you too are faced with the above issues. But your role as a leader means that you must also be concerned with your unit and your team: satisfaction, communication, workflow efficiency and effectiveness, training and education, and consistency across the unit. CALM is here to help on all of these fronts.
How?
- Increase team satisfaction. Ensuring team satisfaction is essential in attracting and retaining nurses and is a crucial element in ensuring the quality of care to patients. Two of the most important factors to improve nursing satisfaction are increased nurse-patient interaction and physician-nurse cooperation and communication. See below how CALM can help in this area:
- Provide overall team effectiveness through streamlined work processes. Through CALM's clear and easy to use clinical information system, your staff will have an efficient real-time access to patient information. The result is increased hands-on and better patient care, reduced stress among team members and ultimately better team performance.
- Ensure team acceptance and usage of the system. CALM promotes adoption through its easy to use configurable interface based on your team's preferences and work methods. In addition, users benefit from LMS' unique training "by clinicians for clinicians".
- Simplify education and staff training. CALM provides an education tool woven into your daily care process. Visual displays and cues serve as learning aids, incite action and demonstrate the effectiveness of interventions. Users are prompted to enter information and provide a certain path of care based on standard medical practice and hospital policy - making the learning process that much easier.
- Improve communication among team members by employing a common vocabulary. CALM provides users with a standard and consistent means of entering information, while graphics and percentile labor progress indicators standardize the interpretation and communication of patient status, providing a common language with physicians.
- Add precision, consistency and efficiency to data entry. CALM ensures proper documentation and compliance with best practices by prompting users to enter information - eliminating issues of illegible handwriting, lost documents and information ownership. Further, CALM's archiving capabilities ensure the information will be stored and available based on your hospital's guidelines.
- Add objectivity to the interpretation of labor dystocia: By employing the CALM Curve OB Guidance tool, you and your team obtain a continuous assessment of the mother's labor progress, allowing you to clearly define when she has fallen outside normal limits of labor based on pre-defined hospital and medical guidelines. The CALM Curve enables your team to effectively decide how long is too long � in a timely fashion.
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