Abstract
Nurse call (hereinafter referred to as NC) which is used for communication on a daily basis in hospitals is sometimes recognized as a business interruption risk, and stress of staff. Each hospital or ward worked to reduce number of NC. However, there are no studies of condition by medical department with gathering data from multiple hospitals. Therefore, this study gathered call information from hospitals the computer NC installed and grasped the trend. There is a difference in each department, the top 10% callers accounted for 58% of the total calls. The appearance rate of more than 50 calls per day was confirmed, the highest department was 3% of neurological department. In addition, the tendency of the leaving bed sensor being used for fall accident prevention was also confirmed. This study discuss for reduction of NC with these data.
