Integrating nurse call with lighting in the patient environment can have significant benefits for patient safety, wellbeing, and workflow efficiency. Matt Clutton, Mechanical Product Design manager at Static Systems Group, a specialist provider of healthcare communication and bedhead services trunking solutions, explores the latest developments in this field, and discusses the role of lighting in hospital wards.
Static Systems has been integrating lighting solutions with nurse call systems for over 40 years. Historically, lighting in a healthcare environment held three primary functions – enabling staff to get to a patient call as quickly as possible by guiding them using corridor and overdoor lights; lighting the bed area for patient convenience and comfort, and providing lighting at the bedside, controlled by clinicians for examination purposes
Over the last 10 years or so, we have witnessed rapid developments in lighting technology, and there are now various lighting control solutions on the market which allow nurse call systems to control luminaires. These include protocols such as SwitchDim, DSI (Digital Serial Interface), and DALI (Digital Addressable Lighting Interface)-connected solutions, as well as PoE (Power over Ethernet) and IP (Internet Protocol) connectivity.
Static Systems works with a number of lighting suppliers, including Whitecroft Lighting, Brandon Medical, Glamox Luxo Lighting, Thorlux Lighting, and Visualite, among others, to varying levels of control and with different products.
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