4 Reasons Why Bar Coded Wrist bands for Patients should be Mandatory across the Healthcare Industry
Although there are hundreds of hospitals nationwide in which patient wrist bands have been implemented as part of standard safety practices, they are still not legally required. Listed here are five reasons why hospital bar coded wrist bands should be used in each and every hospital across the nation.
Newborn Identification
Most of the hospitals that use wrist bands started doing so in an effort to ensure that newborns were properly identified with their parents. In this case, both the newborn and the parent