Solutions for Nursing Units
Reduce nurse involvement in medical supply management
Your nurses’ time is valuable, why waste it on medical supply management?
Nurses face daily supply chain challenges, from locating items in cluttered store rooms, to experiencing unexpected stockouts. Added to this is the role they play in receiving, monitoring, and reordering supplies. Using busy nurses to monitor and manage medical supplies leads to operational inefficiencies and takes nurses away from patient care.
By providing effective solutions to the supply chain challenges faced by nurses every day, we can ensure they are freed up to focus on what they do best—providing exceptional patient care.
Three major supply change challenges in nursing units are:
Challenge 1:
Trying to maintain optimum inventory levels in nursing units
Managing fast-moving medical supplies is a labor-intensive task, and it’s hard for time-strapped nurses to juggle supply chain management with patient care, while also battling staff shortages. Despite all the effort involved, restocks are inefficient, leading to surpluses and stockouts on the department.
Challenge 2:
Lack of visibility impedes procurement and planning
With so many supplies’ spaces requiring inventory checks, manual counting ends up being rushed and imprecise. Over-cautious procurement is a common side effect of bad data, and this results in a bloated inventory. Lack of clear inventory vision inhibits decision-making and planning.
Challenge 3:
Reducing the supply chain admin burden on nurses
Managing medical supplies saps up nurse time and takes them away from patients. Reducing the supply chain burden on nurses improves job satisfaction rates and can even impact on retention. Nurses should be focusing on patients, not products and technology can play a role in lightening their workload.
Choose your favorite tool
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Wireless PAR Weighing Bin
First ever autonomous wireless weight-based inventory management system
You won't find anything simpler.
Technology takes the pressure off busy nurses by adding labor-lite precision to materials management.
From Wireless Weight-Based PAR Bins to Digital Kanban “Push-button” Tags, IDENTI has solutions that complement your existing setup. Our Kanban & PAR automation technology effortlessly turns a manual system into an automated, digital solution.
Finally... no manual counting!
Our digital solutions deliver automated stock management and enhanced control of medical supplies.
Supplies available on demand
Grab and go without fear! Precise tracking results in prompt restocks, putting an end to surpluses and stock-outs.
Two routes to seamless integration
Individual bins and digital tags neatly fit into your existing supplies’ spaces.
Digital data seamlessly integrates with your EMR, ERP and MMIS
Powerful material management insights
Supply chain analytics steer management towards informed decision-making. Predictive analytics underpin future planning.
The impact of automating Kanban & PAR
Automating stock management in nursing units lightens the supply chain burden on nurses while delivering precision data and optimum stock levels.
The winning combination of data-deduced PAR levels and auto-generated restock orders, has the power to optimize inventory management in nursing units,
50%
Reduction in time the logistics team spend on the ward
ZERO
Time spent by nurses on stock orders
90%
Increase in nurse satisfaction
86%
Reduction of nursing time spent on supplies organization
57%
Reduction in the number of individual orders
Advanced tracking technology delivers
Easy bin set up and update
It’s easy to get started or switch product. Associating an item with a smart bin or digital tag is a simple task .No more printing! No more labels! Easy digital set up using our simple app..
Seamless system integration
Medical supplies’ data flows freely into the hospital’s ERP and MMIS, supporting timely admin processes.. Give your vendors access to the managing software for shared vision and transparency.
Individual bin technology
Automation no longer requires cumbersome units, tied to a power cable. Enjoy the ease and flexibility of individual digital bins and tags. Easy integration into your current supply room set-up..
Inventory insights
Full inventory vision, real-time metrics, management reports and data insights enhance decision making, supporting a streamlined inventory, lower wastage and minimized costs.
Streamline your inventory
Supplies being available on demand, quick item location and minimal nurse involvement in restocks, all result in a reduced supply chain burden on busy nurses, improving satisfaction levels.
Patient and staff satisfaction
Supplies being available on demand, quick item location and minimal nurse involvement in restocks, all result in a reduced supply chain burden on busy nurses, improving satisfaction levels.
CASE STUDY
Read one hospital’s journey moving from a manual medical supply management system to an automated solution.
Automating the hospital’s Kanban & PAR system minimized the role of clinical staff in supply management. Find out how integrating autonomous bins and digital tags saved money, reduced labor, and improved efficiency.
