The Effectiveness of Smart Palliative Bed to Measure a Patient's Weight

摘要

Patient safety is the most important thing in health services at the hospital. Hospital services have a high risk of patient safety, especially in providing medical care and treatment. The most common incidence of patient safety in Indonesia is the mistake of administering drugs. It needs innovation that can facilitate health workers in carrying out their duties, especially calculating drug dosages by knowing the patient's weight through the bed scale. The research method used in this study is research and development, namely the research method is used to produce a particular product. Then the finished product will be tested with 16 respondents selected by according to the criteria, the study sample was taken using a purposive sampling system Respondents were weighed twice, first with digital floor scales and second with bed scales. The results of this study are patient bed products with weight scales for total bed rest patients. Then conducted a test on the respondent and the results were tested using paired t test, the result was a P value = 0.333> 0.05. These result indicate that there is no difference between the digital floor scales and the bed scales. Bed product with weight scales is a new innovation in the health world that function as weight-weighing patients who are unable to get out of bed. So that patients can do direct weighing in bed to find out the latest weight and as a basis for calculating the drug dosage that the nurse will provide.