Hands-on nursing needs hands-free communication
Where does hands-on nursing happen? Anywhere the work of patient care is unpredictable, change is constant and teamwork is essential. And whether you need to call a code, call for equipment or call for help, you should always feel connected to the people you rely on.
Communication should fit the way you work
The Sync Badge is a hands-free, wearable communication device that helps workflow efficiency in dynamic, hands-on patient care environments.
Quick collaboration
Communicate seamlessly with team members across units and roles.
Workflow efficiency
Help save time and steps, and reduce cognitive load by calling key people, roles or groups hands-free.
Emergency communication
Quickly reach a response or security team with a dedicated panic button.
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Quick collaboration
Use your voice to communicate with team members across units and roles, while keeping your hands and eyes on the patient.
Communicate as easily as you speak
Say “Okay Vocera” to wake up the Sync Badge and start communicating.
Reach the people you need by name, role, group or extension. Urgently broadcast to team members for assistance or to assemble a rapid response group. Page a user or group. Call people who are outside the hospital. Make, receive, transfer and forward calls.
Reach people on the communication device they use
The Sync Badge is part of our enterprise workflow platform, which includes not only hands-free, wearable devices, but also software for smartphones and desktops. Our technology can even interoperate with desktop phones, hospital pager systems and call center systems.
Workflow efficiency
When the work of hands-on patient care is unpredictable and demanding and nursing resources are limited, the Sync Badge can help save time and steps, and reduce cognitive load by calling key people, roles or groups hands-free.
Know your device is always at the ready
Hands too busy to pull out a phone, unlock it and navigate to a communication app? No problem.
Wear the Sync Badge at the neckline to communicate fast.
Tilt the device toward you and you can read the screen and navigate without needing to remove the device from the clip or lanyard.
See and do the most important things first
Quickly navigate and prioritise communications with intuitive buttons and a three-section inbox that helps you to promptly address new notifications and easily access previously reviewed items.
Identify urgent notifications, and the number and priority of unread notifications, with colour coding by priority.
Stay focused on critical tasks
When you need to focus on patient care workflow tasks, set the Sync Badge to Do Not Disturb mode for 5, 10, 15 or 30 minutes – or as long as you need.
Normal-priority calls will automatically route to another user. An urgent call notification can break through Do Not Disturb mode, or if a user is playing a text message or on a call.
Let the alarms and notifications you need come to you
You can receive alarms, critical lab results and STAT order notifications directly on the Sync Badge*.
Through integration with Stryker’s Vocera Engage* middleware, the Sync Badge can receive information from your electronic medical record (EMR)*, nurse call system, patient monitors*, medical devices*, scheduling systems, connected beds and stretchers*, and more.
Emergency communication
Even in a hospital, violence can happen. The Sync Badge has a dedicated panic button you can discreetly press in a moment of distress.
Summon help at the press of a button
Let the Sync Badge call for help when you can’t.
In an emergency, reach help quickly by pressing the dedicated panic button to discreetly open a communication channel that broadcasts to a response or security team – without drawing attention, and even if you can’t speak.
Responders can see your name and location, hear what’s happening and communicate directly with you if the situation allows.
Reach your team when you need them
In a less emergent situation, use voice commands to broadcast to nearby colleagues for assistance.
Get critical security system alarms and notifications
The Sync Badge is part of an enterprise hospital communication system that can integrate with security systems for situational awareness, mass notification and more.
The platform can route security system alarms and notifications to the right people at the right time and allow broad communication in the event of a threat.
FAQs
Yes – the Sync Badge integrates with nurse call systems, and that’s not all. Through integration with Stryker’s Vocera Engage* middleware, the Sync Badge can receive information from nurse call systems, electronic medical records (EMRs)*, patient monitors*, medical devices, scheduling systems, connected beds and stretchers*, and more.
Yes – the Sync Badge enables clear, secure hands-free communication, even when worn under restrictive personal protective equipment (PPE).
The Sync Badge is especially suited to fast-moving environments where nurses’ hands and attention are engaged in patient care tasks and there’s a heavy reliance on teamwork. The emergency department, operating room, labor and delivery, and NICU are prime examples, but the Sync Badge can be used in any department.
The Sync Badge was inspired by nurses and is well-suited to any staff member who needs to keep their hands free for workflow tasks and communicate quickly. Our hands-free, wearable communication devices are also used by physicians in hands-on environments, as well as staff in areas such as environmental services, radiology, pharmacy and facilities management.
The Sync Badge is 1.5 x 3.9 x .7 in. (38 x 98 x 17.5 mm) without the clip. It weighs 2.6 oz. (75 g) with the clip and battery.
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* * Vocera Engage, the workflow engine, includes Engage Medical Device Alarm Notification (EMDAN), which is not available for purchase by the general public. Vocera Engage enables filtering, routing, escalation, and prioritisation of alarm and event notifications that clinicians receive on their device of choice.
A healthcare professional must always rely on his or her own professional clinical judgment when deciding whether to use a particular product when treating a particular patient. Stryker does not dispense medical advice and recommends that healthcare professionals be trained in the use of any particular product before using it. The information presented is intended to demonstrate the breadth of Stryker product offerings. Minibadge not available with Engage Medical Device Alarm Notification (EMDAN)
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