99nicu Poll: are you allowed to use mobile phones/tablets in your NICU

[Stefan Johansson]

Internet has become an everyday tool in health care. To communicate. To search of information. To do research.

Thanks to the development of smartphones and tablets, we can access Internet from anywhere. Almost...

There are many policies regarding the use of mobile phones and tablets in hospital environments, due to a risk of interference with technical devices.

Are you allowed to use your smartphone in your NICU?

Please post comments below.

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[Guest jbaiermd]

Many people use them but we are really "not supposed to use them". Hospital IT departments need to be more flexable

[Guest antcamac]

Yes, we use it without restrictions, I have my skyscape e-books on my smartphone and they are of great utillity, by the way it could be very usefull if nicu99 publish a list of software that are impresindible for the neonatologyst in the NICU,

Thanks

DrAntonio Camacho Aguilar

Neonatologyst

Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social

Mexico.

[Apgar10]

We will be written up if caught using our smart phone.

[Syed Rehan Ali]

Yes

[Abdelrahman]

Yes it is used by all members without restriction

[Stefan Johansson]

I don't really know what to vote as we have different policies in our different units.

The six Karolinska NICUs are located in three diff hospitals.

Where I work now, mobiles are No-no's. In contrast to the other two hospitals where mobiles are 1) "accepted" and 2) used instead if regular DECT-phones (i.e. Yes-yes!)

@Apgar10: What happens after you are written up?

@antcamac: Good idea! I start such à thread later.

[Guest mbmrnc]

Infection Control cultured everyone's phone and a few had MRSA on them, now they are forbidden in the unit( by nurses , of course the MD's do what they want)

[nbenfadel]

All the staff have iPad. It makes life easy for everyone, looking up patient information and results especially during team rounds.

[Francesco Cardona]

Cell phone use is officially not allowed on our wards, but everybody uses them anyhow.