Nurse Call and Acoustic Monitoring at Treloar Campus: Nurse Call and Acoustic Monitoring

Treloar’s is a charity that provides an outstanding specialist school and college for physically disabled children and young people aged from 4 – 25 years, helping them to be as independent as possible. Comprising five residential houses ranging from 24 – 36 beds, their aim is to enable education and independence for disabled young people.

Many of the students at Treloar’s have extremely complex needs, which means they are not able to summon assistance via the standard nurse call system which can leave them vulnerable, especially at night.

The diverse types and complexities of student needs mean problems can occur at any time, including during the night. The limited number of night-shift staff were carrying out scheduled in-room checks every 30 minutes to 1 hour, however this still left large windows of unattended time during which life-threatening issues, including seizures, choking etc. could arise.

For those students, the school and college previously used a variety of domestic style baby/video monitors. However, as the number of students requiring these devices increased, it became clear that a more effective and streamlined form of monitoring was needed to provide speedier and more efficient assistance to those in need.

“With the radio frequencies of domestic-style baby monitors being challenging to maintain and with the number of students requiring remote visual monitoring increasing, support workers felt they had to conduct additional ad-hoc in room checks on students throughout the day and night. This increased sleep disturbance for students and added overwhelm for staff, in some cases led to an unhealthy and strained environment for everyone. It was clear a more sophisticated solution for the wellbeing of both our students and for those delivering care needed to be found at Treloar’s.

Implementing CLB’s bespoke acoustic monitoring and nurse call system has improved the situation on every level, including seeing a positive impact on both staff productivity and resident wellbeing. As a result, we have seen faster responses, a better level of care and improved quality of life for our students due to more accurate notifications and alerts for staff via the system. Students now benefit from a better quality of sleep due to support workers being able to conduct checks remotely without having to open bedroom doors and disturb students. CLB’s acoustic monitoring system now enables service users to be continuously and unobtrusively monitored”. – Treloar’s