title: Use wireless phones to reduce unproductive labor, increase time with patients.
abstract: Wireless telephone systems help wipe out nurses' unproductive time. The Ohio State University Medical Center in Columbus installed a portable phone system throughout its hospital to increase efficiency in nursing shifts. The system proved so successful that more than 450 hospital personnel now use the phones.
mesh_terms: D000046:Academic Medical Centers / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003219:Confidentiality; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006746:Hospital Bed Capacity, 500 and over; D006747:Hospital Communication Systems; D007318:Inservice Training / Q000458:organization & administration; D009820:Ohio; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D013685:Telecommunications / Q000295:instrumentation*; D013689:Telephone; D017748:Time Management / Q000379:methods*