seca Launches New Nurse's Portal
ONTARIO, Calif. (August 1st, 2007) - seca, the world’s market leader for medical scales, is launching its newly designed web site and a Nurses Portal this week at www.seca.com. The new site and Portal will provide valuable resources for nurses and health care professionals working in acute and primary care settings.
The newly-developed seca Nurses Portal supplies important information and expert advice from physicians and nurses on how to achieve best practices in weighing and measuring. Initially focused on the neonatal and pediatric settings, the Nurses Portal will help to ensure the health and safety of the world’s most vulnerable patients. Additional areas of expertise, including cardiology, burn and bariatric are expected to be added later this year.
Features of the new site and Nurses Portal include:
- Information on best practices in weighing and measuring in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU).
- Expert advice from physicians and nurses on best practices in weighing and measuring neonates, infants and toddlers.
- Downloadable materials to assist nurses when caring for neonates, infants and children.
- The latest industry news and information on seca’s presence in the acute and primary care settings.
- A quality assurance checklist of activities to ensure accurate weights and measures.
- Answers to the most frequently asked questions regarding seca’s products and services.
According to Jeff Mayes, executive vice president and general manager for seca North America, the newly designed web site is part of the company’s ongoing initiative to provide nurses and healthcare professionals with relevant information about the importance of obtaining accurate weights and measures when treating the world’s most vulnerable patients.
"The newly designed web site and Nurses Portal are part of our effort to educate and to directly impact the individuals who are responsible for the care of these patients, and that would be the nurses themselves," said Mayes. “We are firmly committed to providing them with the best tools and information available to ensure continued outstanding care for their patients.”
seca scales, backed by more than 160 years of German excellence and engineering, are used in top U.S. hospitals and research institutions including the Mayo Clinic, Johns Hopkins, and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. At the Mayo Clinic, seca collaborated with the staff to implement one of the first all-metric systems in a U.S. hospital. Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health, Columbia University and Georgetown University also utilize seca measurement devices when seeking cures and better treatment modalities for illnesses.
About seca
As the world’s market leader for medical scales, seca has been setting standards in function, technology, and design for more than 160 years. Working closely with practitioners, scientists, and engineers, seca develops scales and measuring instruments that meet the highest standards of precision and reliability in 110 countries worldwide. Headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, the company has branches in North America, Switzerland, Great Britain, France, Austria, Japan, China and Mexico.
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