Using Smart Pillow Speakers To Upgrade Calls - GE Telligence Patient-Staff Communications System Operation Manual

Chapter 4
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3. When the call is answered at a staff console or annunciator, this
happens:
The red light behind the nurse call button on the Smart
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Pillow Speaker turns on, indicating that the patient can
speak with the staff member.
Smart Pillow Speaker entertainment audio is interrupted
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during the call's audio.
The Status light on the patient station shows a steady
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green, indicating the audio connection.
The Call light on the patient station extinguishes, if the call
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was cleared.
Dome light illumination for the original call, is the call was
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cleared.
4. During the call, the patient should speak in a normal
conversational tone (patient audio is picked up by the
microphone in the patient station on the wall).
Note: If necessary, the staff member can adjust call volume
settings from the staff console or annunciator.
5. When the call ends, this happens:
The Status light extinguishes.
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Using smart pillow speakers to upgrade calls

Upgrading a Smart Pillow Speaker call requires that presence
already be registered in the patient room (see "Registering staff
presence" on page 99).
To upgrade a Smart Pillow Speaker call:
1. Press the nurse call button on the Smart Pillow Speaker twice in
rapid succession. The system responds as follows:
The call assurance tone sounds at the patient station.
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Top light sections of associated corridor and zone lights fast
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flash red.
On 4-section dome lights, the second light sections down
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show a steady white.
Staff consoles and annunciators show two calls — the staff
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emergency call and the original call.
Staff emergency tones sound at staff consoles and
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annunciators.
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