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Rounding cuts number of call lights by 3,000

Quality Improvement Report, July 1, 2008

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Six months after the telemetry unit at Sts. Mary & Elizabeth Hospital in Louisville, KY, implemented hourly nurse rounding, the number of patient falls decreased, patient satisfaction increased, and call light use dropped by more than 3,000 per month.

“The managers round on all of the patients every day,” says Amy Robinson, RN, a nurse manager at the 200-bed facility. “One of the questions we ask the patient is, ‘Does someone always come in as soon as you use your call light?’ And we often hear, ‘Oh, I never use my call light because they’re in here all the time.’ ”

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