When you have limited workspace, solutions need to be found to maximize space while allowing you to provide the best care possible. Rolling medical supply carts provide a unique solution to care providers not found in any other equipment or wall-mounted solution. Their maneuverability gives hospital staff a myriad of options in a limited workspace without cutting back on care.
Medication Cart on Wheels vs. Wall Mounted Solution
One factor you must consider when deciding if a medical cart on wheels is the best solution for a limited workspace is how does it compare to the alternative.
The only true alternative is a wall mounted solution. The benefit of a wall mounted solution is it’s much cheaper initial cost.
But besides that, it has many drawbacks. It can’t be customized and upgraded as easily as a medication cart on wheels. It permanently takes up space in a room when a cart on wheels won’t. It is also more vulnerable to damage, vandalism, and theft, whereas mobile medication carts can be moved into a secure area when not in use.
Some medication carts can also be fitted with a choice of drawer layouts for secure transportation and storage. Cassette and supply drawers are offered with electronic locking with either a keycode or proximity card system to unlock them.
Medication carts can also be placed in the most convenient location allowing multiple members of staff access to the medication drawers – saving time and increasing patient care.
How Mobile Carts Can Improve Patient Care
The proper use of mobile medical carts and rolling medication carts can drastically improve the consistency and level of patient care in a facility. They give hospital staff flexibility and familiarity, coupled with the tools to do administer the very best care.
Mobile medical carts can be fitted with computers, monitors, and scanners allowing staff to check and update electronic health records (EHR) in real time. This gives staff a completer and more accurate picture of a patient’s health.
It also reduces errors in data entry. Staff don’t have to remember vital information before recording it at a later date; there is also no risk of data being misinterpreted due to illegible handwriting.
Monitors can also be used to convey information to patients and any other relevant parties. Not turning your back on patients and actively involving them in their treatment can improve the success of their hospital stay and increase patient satisfaction.
In limited space environments, you can get all these benefits while being able to remove the mobile cart at any time effectively giving hospital staff the best of both worlds.
Limited space environments are also often older buildings, and if this is the case, rolling medication carts are again the best option. Fitting a wall-mounted solution to an older building can be expensive if not totally unfeasible. A specially designed medical cart with multiple surface casters will give you flexibility in deployment and allow the features of the medical cart to be used anywhere.
Our carts can also be fitted with dual mouse trays for both left and right-hand users. This increases comfort over long periods of use for staff and allows the cart to be placed at either the right or left side of a patients bed.
Final Word
When space is limited in a health facility, anything that allows you to move the required equipment around easily and safely is a common sense solution.
That’s why a rolling medical supply cart is the best way to provide the care patients need. It gives hospital staff the equipment, medication, and computers they need to do their jobs at the best of their ability. It improves the speed of care, the consistency and can help to inform patients of their prognosis.
And when the equipment is no longer needed, it can be moved to a secure location in another part of the facility.
