Community Care Observation Bag

Description

The Observation Bag is designed to be durable and hard wearing, perfect for practitioners and those conducting home visits designed to hold the necessary equipment. The Observation Bag works along side the Scales, attaching with hook and loop retainers, perfect for adding any additional equipment.

Its designed to be used in conjunction with the Scales Bag (Sold Separtely) The two attach together with hook and loop retainers. They can also be placed on top of the Trolley Bag, through a sleeve fitted on the back of the Scales Bag.

The bag is made MicrAgard™ Plus wipe clean material which is exclusive to Openhouse and extremely robust. the material is available in 8 colors, more can be read above or we can supply swatches for testing.

Dimensions: (H) 260 (W) 340 x (D) 180mm

The Bag developed from Birmingham Community Healthcare as they  had seen an increase in incidents through the trust mainly from nursing staff who had suffered musculoskeletal injuries whilst carrying equipment to and from patients homes in the community.  A review was undertaken by staff in various teams and it was identified that there was no consistent approach to the bags used across the trust, various shapes, sizes and materials were used which increased the risk of injury and added to issues around infection control.

Staff who have received the new bags have expressed how much better they are in the teams and prefer them to the other bags used and the weight of the equipment carried has been reduced, as this has allowed them to carry the necessary equipment as and when needed when conducting home visits.

After working with Openhouse, Birmingham Community Care used a number of ideas to develop a bag that would meet the needs of all the teams and be large enough to carry the items they require on a day to day basis, without the additional space to overload the bags. A solution was designed to allow staff to pick and choose what part of the bag they needed, rather than taking all items in one go. This involves a Scales Bag  and Observation Bag which attach together allowing items to be carried efficiently.