Should cell phone use be allowed in hospitals?

Question

Should cell phone use be allowed in hospitals if it can be proven there would be no safety threat involved in such use?

Answer 1

Thanks to advances in both cell phone technology and better RF shielding on medical equipment, most hospitals these days do allow cell phone use in non-critical areas. In the hospital I work for, the only places you can't use a cell are the ICU, ER, and the Operating Room.
And as for using them at work: The other nurses and I are far too busy to answer a cell phone. It's considered grossly unprofessional at any rate. That's why the gods gave us voice mail.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

If cell phone signals are not interfering with the safety and function of hospital equipment their use should be allowed in hospitals and appropriate legislation should be passed to encourage hospitals to allow it, since they may be inclined to rely on commissions from hard wired phones used by patients and pay phones.

Answer 4

No, actually they have already made some pretty strong rules about that in most hospitals... the cell phone interferes with the microwaves (not the cooking ovens) and they don't want people messing those up! It also has something to do with another problem, but I'm not positive what it was... sorry!

Answer 5

Ryan F, your talking out of your ar*e, patient care has nothing to do with cell phones. are you seriously suggesting that any doctor would tell a seriously ill patient 'to hang on a minute while ill answer that'. The reason cell phones are not used in hospital is because EVERYONE is obsessed with health & safety

Answer 6

IF it can be proven there is no safety threat involved, it may be alright. However, we must also consider the patients and the many times their rest might be interrupted if everybody did not turn their cell phones off. They are in the hospital because of sickness, and I guess we ought to be more considerate of the patients than many of us all.

I guess this may also mean to cut our visit shorts as well!

Answer 7

Absolutely, as long as the RF signals do not interfere with hospital equipment. Especially in hospital rooms, patients should be allowed to use cell phones.

Answer 8

No. Cell phones are a stress vice. Keep stress out of hospitals - any way you can.

Answer 9

cell phones work , useing high frequency radio waves, that do at times cause hospital equeptment to display false reading on equeptment..
Besides, I am shure if your there and felling bad, tha last thing you want to hear, is those things ringing or some ones loud voice

Answer 10

Cell phones are more appropriate for prisons.