Single rooms made care better - and made the colleague you need harder to reach.
When a colleague raises a personnel alarm, help has to reach them fast – but on a large, single-room ward, knowing exactly where they are and who is closest is rarely quick. Columna Flow Search & Find works with your alarm and nurse call systems to show where the alarm came from and alert the nearest colleague who can respond. The same view helps you find any colleague and see whether they're free the rest of the shift, so less of the day goes on searching the building.
From raising the alarm to reaching the right person
When a colleague needs urgent help, the response is only as fast as the search that follows. On a spread-out ward of single rooms, that can mean calling round, checking corridors and working out who's closest while the seconds pass. The same friction shapes every ordinary shift: finding a senior nurse or a specific doctor means phone calls, messages and a walk, and often interrupting someone mid-task just to ask where a colleague is.
What changes across a shift
Knowing where colleagues are and who's free changes the rhythm of a shift. When an alarm goes off, you can see where it came from at a glance instead of searching, routine questions get answered without walking the ward, and staff interrupt each other less. The result is a ward that stays calmer day to day and responds faster when it counts.
In Danish healthcare, staff location using GS1 standards has been documented as a way to locate staff and create calm on the ward (GS1 Denmark, with Region Midtjylland).
Works with your nurse call and alarm systems
Search & Find connects with the nurse call, personnel alarm and communication systems your hospital already uses, so location sits alongside the alerts your teams already rely on – no separate tool to learn. When an alarm is raised, you can see straight away where it came from.
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