Nurse Call Problems?
Do you have clients who have problems activating your nurse call or alarm system? Can you support a client with special requirements or a physical disability? Perhaps we can offer the solution........

In 1961, Possum was founded by an engineer who designed the POSM (Patient Operated Selector Mechanism) device for a patient who was totally paralysed from the neck down to signal to the nurses at the hospital. Today we are still faced with the same problem of patients with extremely limited movement being unable to operate the nurse call systems installed in hospitals and residential homes. In response to this, Possum has developed the NurseCall Link, which enables patients to use existing nurse call systems by using any of a choice of over 100 specialist disability switches. In addition, the system can alert portable InfoPagers which will provide details of the alarm location directly to busy nurses on the move.

Key features

• Connects directly to existing nurse call systems
• Easy to operate
• Specialist switch interface:
• Over 100 switches for any disability
• InfoPagers: provides information on alarm location

Key technical features

Helps care providers to meet:

• CSCI (Commission for Social Care Inspection) National Minimum Standard 29.2 (iii) (vi)*
• DDA (Disability Discrimination Act) Access to service provision Section 21 (1) (4)**
• Easy to move from room to room
• Supports a wide variety of clients with limited function
• Allows OT to assess for switch access and positioning
• Activated by (optional) staff emergency pull cord, wrist pendant and wireless sensors including smoke alarm, temperature extremes and flood sensors

The InfoPager :

• Provides information on the location of the source of the alarm
• Displays the back up battery status - of both InfoPager and NurseCall Link module alerts if the switch has been removed from the NurseCall Link module
• Alerts if the NurseCall Link module has been unplugged from the main power supply
  • Activated by hand, foot, finger, head, chin, mouth, sip/puff, knee etc.
  • Can be attached to floor stands, bed, wall and wheelchair mounts.

Extensive range of switches:

CSCI Commission for Social Care Inspection. Care Homes for Adults (18-65) STANDARD 29 - ADAPTATIONS AND EQUIPMENT OUTCOME. Service users have the specialist equipment they require to maximise their independence. 29.2 Homes offering a service to people with physical disabilities provide specialist equipment as needed for each individual including, for example; iii. Environmental control system; vi. Call alarm systems. ** Disability Discrimination Act 1995 UK (DDA). 21 Duty of providers of services to make adjustments (1) Where a provider of services has a practice, policy or procedure which makes it impossible or unreasonably difficult for disabled persons to make use of a service which he provides, or is prepared to provide, to other members of the public, it is his duty to take such steps as it is reasonable, in all the circumstances of the case, for him to have to take in order to change that practice, policy or procedure so that it no longer has that effect. (4) Where an auxiliary aid or service would: (a) enable disabled persons to make use of a service which a provider of services provides, or is prepared to provide, to members of the public, or (b) facilitate the use by disabled persons of such a service.