- Target:
- New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services
- Region:
- United States of America
A regulation should be enacted to ensure a safe a patient telemetry technician ratio. With no guideline in place a technician may watch as many patients as the facility holds. As a Telemetry Technician of over ten years I can attest to my senses becoming overwhelmed at fifty plus patients.
When your senses become overstimulated a person may simply silence an alarm to eliminate the noise and disregard the patients ectopy.
A recommendation of a technician patient ratio of 1:48 would create quality care for future patients. No arrhythmia should be missed due to technician burnout.
We, the undersigned, call on the NJ Department of Health and Senior Services to create a healthcare regulation for a safe Telemetry Technician patient ratio of 1:48.
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The Support a safe Telemetry Technician patient ratio petition to New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services was written by Alisha Ciglar and is in the category Health at GoPetition.