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Your nurse call specification sheet has ten questions: how many rooms, what sanitary facilities, what care rooms, how many nursing posts, supervision, connections with IP telephony, sound system and network, backup power, maintenance, training. Answering them before the quote allows comparison on a level playing field. This page is meant to be printed and filled with your management and technical manager.
In short
- Ten questions to resolve before the quote, from room count to staff training.
- Some answers relate to your organization, others to the product technical sheet.
- Floor plans and a list of rooms speed up the quotation.
Nurse call specification sheet, part 1: the building
Facility: ________ Date: ________ Contact: ________
Tick ☐ each question addressed and note the answer.
- ☐ How many rooms and beds? List the rooms by floor, with their beds (a two‑bed room often requires a call point per bed), and add those planned later. On Legrand Mosaic, a management module covers 3 independent rooms or bathrooms and the manufacturer recommends the system for 1 to 72 of these “directions”: the planned extension is included in sizing. Answer: ________
- ☐ What sanitary facilities to equip? Bathroom in the room, shared toilets, showers, facilities for people with reduced mobility: each can receive a sanitary pull‑cord, to be installed accessibly. Answer: ________
- ☐ What care rooms and other spaces? Care rooms, consultation, recovery, corridors: note where a patient may need to call. Answer: ________
Part 2: posts, supervision and integrations
- ☐ How many nurse call stations, and where? One per care unit? Is it occupied day and night? If no one is there, where should the call go? On Mosaic, the main display can be routed to up to 4 secondary displays (care room, break room), and the call can also be forwarded to a bell, a synthesis indicator or a DECT cordless phone. Answer: ________
- ☐ What supervision? Who should see the calls in addition to the nurse station: general supervisor, management? Do you want a history? On Mosaic, traceability is achieved via a telephone coupling product, supplied outside Legrand, to be planned from the start. Answer: ________
- ☐ What integration with IP telephony? Indicate if calls should reach staff phones. On Mosaic, they do via a coupling product linked to the standard (PABX or IPBX) and DECT phones. Answer: ________
- ☐ What sound system, what network? Specify if signals must pass through the sound system, and whether the nurse call joins the IT network or stays on dedicated cabling. The consulted Legrand guide does not describe a link to a sound system; it describes a link to the IP network via a dry-contact interface box. Answer: ________
Part 3: backup, maintenance and training
- ☐ Quelle alimentation de secours ? With power outages, decide if the nurse call must run without power and for how many hours. Legrand states that the system should be connected to a backup network (generator and/or UPS) and that on an outage longer than one second, ongoing calls may be lost. Answer: ________
- ☐ What maintenance? AsloTech provides maintenance for nurse‑call systems. Specify what you expect: preventive, corrective or both, frequency of tests per point, spare parts to keep on hand, expected response time, person to call in case of failure. We then quote a price on a quote. Response: ________
- ☐ What staff training? Who is trained (day and night teams, new hires) and for what: identify the source of a call, cancel it, react to a failure. Answer: ________
Documents to attach to your request
- Floor plans, with rooms and restrooms.
- List of rooms to equip.
- Location of the technical room and conduits.
- Existing network and telephony.
- If applicable, the regulatory requirements that apply to your facility, to be confirmed with the competent authorities and the inspection office.
What we do with your answers
We match your answers to the plans and identify the call points to be installed. We then check capacity (number of management modules and displays) and interfaces on the technical sheet before quoting, and we note what remains to be confirmed. An unanswered question is not a problem: it becomes an item to study together.
Frequently asked questions
Is a specification required before requesting a quote?
It is not mandatory, but it avoids quotes that omit a post (cabling, backup, training). To know which posts to compare, read how much a nurse call system costs.
Who writes the specification: the clinic or the installer?
Both. The clinic describes usage: who calls, who answers, when. The installer translates it into a technical solution, and the architect or design office provides plans and conduits.
Can you answer without knowing the product?
Yes for everything that concerns your organization. Capacities and integrations depend on the product: we complete them with you.
Fill in the list, then send it with your plans via the page nurse call for health facilities. Before responding, read how a nurse call system works; for the choice of link, wired or wireless nurse call.