A few decades ago, many hospitals began utilizing dry-erase boards in patient rooms to increase patient involvement and communication between hospital staff and patients. Nurses would write personal messages on the dry-erase boards for patients to cheer them up a bit. Or they would write pertinent information for doctors to see quickly without them having to refer to charts, such as medications needed.

Unfortunately, dry-erase boards never lived up to their potential. Nurses don’t have the time to keep them updated. Bigger caseloads, shorter lengths of stay and multiple job duties have reduced the amount of time nurses can spend at the patient’s bedside. Keeping a dry-erase board updated from one shift to the next is a challenge in many busy nursing units.  In addition, hunting down lost markers and erasers takes even more time away from patients. Furthermore, dry-erase boards tend to wear out over time and need to be replaced every couple of years, which can become a costly expense.

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SOURCE Sharp Electronics Corporation