Temp/humidity monitoring
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How many temp/humidity monitors do you use per hospital unit/testing site? Do you have one centralized one? Do you have one per hallway?
Our setup is currently a bit of a mixed bag. On some units we have one per hallway, while others just have one for the whole unit. If a device or reagent is in a separate, closed room we always have one in the room.
We are in the process of planning a move into a brand new hospital (being built as we speak). I would like to standardize our approach and am curious if there is a norm.
Our setup is currently a bit of a mixed bag. On some units we have one per hallway, while others just have one for the whole unit. If a device or reagent is in a separate, closed room we always have one in the room.
We are in the process of planning a move into a brand new hospital (being built as we speak). I would like to standardize our approach and am curious if there is a norm.
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Why are temperature and humidity monitors in a hallway? are patient testing being done there. I believe there should be atleast 1 monitor in a *contiguous room unless there are pockets in the room that have fluctuating temperature and humidity.
@Jo Win: We have GEM 5000 blood gas analyzers in our hallways on several units (we're a pediatric institution).
We have a mix...some are done with the building automation system but not all. We have our own temp & humidity min/max devices that we read manually Mon-Fri. It's a pain, but we just aren't there to have all of it monitored with the automation system. Regardless, yes sometimes it is monitoring a hallway, a room, or area. We haven't put any stipulations on square footage or anything like that.
If the POC equipment and supplies are in a separate utility room, there's a monitor in there. If they tend to sit at a nursing station in a ward - then we have one per floor/unit. Anytime you need to go through a separate doorway we treat that as a separate "unit" to be monitored, as the temp/humidity may be different. Every fridge has it's own monitor if there are any POC supplies stored in there. We tend to group them to match our glucometer naming - so if ICU has 6 meters, there's a thermometer sensor for ICU. If that same floor has a different nursing unit outside of ICU (say OR for example), then they would have glucometers named differently and have their own temperature monitoring sensor.
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