Nurse watch
The Nurses or Krankenschwesternuhr is a clock that usually by the nursing staff in hospitals or nurses in medical practices is used. For reasons of hygiene, the nurse's watch is not worn on the wrist , but attached to a short chain on the work clothes.
history
Nurse watches, engl. nurse watches , were mainly used in the United Kingdom in the early 20th century and, for hygiene reasons, were used as lapel watches on top of work clothes, e.g. B. apron attached.
variants
There are also variants in which the watch is held in a silicone case. This makes it possible to adapt the color to the individual taste or the color of the work clothes.
It is thus similar to a pocket watch , but in contrast to this it is not carried in the trouser or vest pocket, but is often attached to clothing by means of a clip . It was traditionally the nurse's apron. The chain of the nurse's watch is shorter and often wider than that of the pocket watch. A striking difference to the pocket watch is that the dial is "twisted" by 180 °.
The dial of the nurse's watch often has scales that z. B. facilitate the measurement of a patient's pulse . These scales are very similar to general tachymeter scales on sports watches, with the difference that the displayed magnitude is 1 / h for a tachymeter, but 1 / min for a pulse measuring scale.
There is a local custom that sister pupils are also presented with a nurse's watch after graduation.
There are efforts to significantly expand sister watches in their functions.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Magnus Bang, Katarina Solnevik and Henrik Eriksson: The Nurse Watch: Design and Evaluation of a Smart Watch Application with Vital Sign Monitoring and Checklist Reminders. In: AMIA .. Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium. Volume 2015, 2015, pp. 314–319, PMID 26958162 , PMC 4765660 (free full text).
- ^ Austrian Trade Union Confederation: Activity report of the Austrian Trade Union Confederation 1989, p. M-44.