Why Does Hoarding Happen?
If you were a nurse, especially in climates where accountability and quality of care to patients is important, you’d forgiven for taking matters into your own hands. Often, whether it’s publicised or not, nurses and other staff stash away the items they need for when they need them. It may not be the world we want to live in – but it happens.

Let me go further by saying that in most cases their instincts are entirely rationale – after all they are just trying to deliver an improved service for the patients under their care. However, in reality, these actions can pose a major headache for asset inventories and patients on other floors alike.  Hospitals see this as perceived equipment shortages.

This can cause real frustration for the carers and effect delays to patient care.  Furthermore, because the equipment is hidden away, it very often cannot be located for preventive maintenance and recalls. This then places staff and patients at risk. Most hospitals end up purchasing significant amounts of extra equipment which is obviously wasteful and is ultimately money that could be spent elsewhere. 

Putting a Stop to the Problem
The solution that hospitals are increasingly turning to is helping our clients by providing a tag on each piece of each desired equipment. This way they can see exactly where each asset is – right down to a room. You ca easily search for items too with our search box – visualising everything in either a simple list or in the form of a map.

You can easily set rules up to receive prompts when an items needs a service or maintenance. Automating these procedures with rule time location data gives you to the tools to recuperate your investment quickly and point to a rapid ROI (and of course and end to hoarding)

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