We have these in our hospital, also. In some units, every nurse wears a phone, in postpartum (and a few other units) only the charge nurse wears a phone. But I have also seen nurses using their own personal cellphones, which is not allowed in our hospital. Judie Gibel, RN, MSc, IBCLC > Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 08:20:10 -0500 > From: Sheena & Jason Carnes > <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Re: nurses using cell phones? > > Our hospital just implemented these, every staff > wears a phone, they are > wireless and not cells. They only work in our > building. They are basically > an extension of the stationary phones at the nurse's > stations. What we are > doing is encouraging mothers to call their nurse on > their phone when they > need something. Every room has a wipe off board > where we put our phone > number. Lactation also has their own phone. I > think it will work well, but > we just opened our new unit on Wednesday and still > getting used to all the > new technology in place. Wish us luck, its been a > crazy week so far. > > Sheena Carnes > RN, LLL Leader, CBE > Covenant Medical Center > Waterloo, IA ____________________________________________________ Yahoo! Sports Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up for Fantasy Football http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html