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Introduction

Designed by healthcare professionals and a must for all inpatients or residents, the Meditote is a versatile tote bag that is purpose-built for use within hospitals, aged care facilities and at home. It is designed to keep patients’ important items together in one place within safe and easy reach.

The use of the Meditote will free up valuable space on tray tables maximising safety and minimising risk thereby creating a safer environment for patients and staff. In addition, less staff assistance and intervention allows more effective and efficient distribution of their time to patients. Budgets may also be impacted positively.

The inexpensive Meditote is a perfect fit for use within private and public hospitals, aged care facilities and rehabilitation centres where tray tables are used.

Accreditation

HOSPITALS

The Meditote may also assist you in meeting accreditation standards and improving consumer outcomes in several ways. Meditote supports quality practice and helps meet hospital-based accreditation standards and improve outcomes. The National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards have two main aims: to protect the public from harm and to improve the quality of health care provision. Meditote could assist hospitals with at least 3 of the 8 standards:

Standard 2 – Partnering with consumers

If Meditotes were introduced, patient satisfaction on surveys may be increased. Every inpatient would appreciate not having to rearrange their personal items on their hospital tray table trolley at each mealtime

Standard 3 – Preventing and controlling healthcare-associated infections

With belongings stored in the Meditote, the patient’s clutter free tray table could be more easily wiped clean, helping to reduce the risk of hospital-acquired infection. The Meditote itself does not absorb moisture easily so does not encourage bacterial growth.

Standard 5 – Communicating for safety

Communicating with consumers about the use of the Meditote could reduce the risk of injury and falls caused by patients trying to access personal items from their drawers (or cupboard) or picking up dropped items from the floor. This is especially true with the aged in any environment and non-ambulant patients.

AGED CARE

Meditote also improves outcomes with the assessment of the Australian Aged Care Quality Standards (2019). The Meditote provides advantages for consumers and staff in the following standards: consumer dignity and choice, personal care, supporting daily living, the service environment, feedback and complaints, and the safety and security of consumers.

Directions for Use

Practical and mobile, the Meditote can be draped over a tray table trolley, worn over the shoulder when mobile, attached to an IV pole or even placed on the handles of a wheelchair or other mobility aid. Use of the Meditote is convenient and effortless, holding patients’ belongings within safe and easy reach. To clean, the Meditote can be wiped with a damp cloth. Do not wash or iron.

Storage Possibilities

Clinical requirements such as anti-embolic stockings, a breathing fitness exerciser, splints, emesis bags, protective pads, and inactivated ice or heat packs
Safety requirements such as anti-slip socks or nurse call buzzer
Electronic devices including phone and chargers, TV remote and bed adjustment device
Personal hygiene requirements such as wipes, tissues, toiletries
Reading material including glasses, pen and note book
Items of clothing such as slippers or underwear

Benefits to Medical Institutions & Care Communities

Improved Allocation of Budgets: Improved allocation of human resources equates to better use of hospital budgets, as staff should no longer have to spend time moving or fetching personal items for patients.

Improved Patient Safety: Risk of falls and accidents should be reduced, as reaching for items in drawers and shelves should no longer be required.

Improved Staff Efficiency: The time that nursing staff generally spend attending to patients’ non-nursing needs may be reduced, allowing for more effective use of staff time.

Less Accident Risk: By providing a better system for centrally storing patient belongings, spillages and breakages should be far less common.

Hygiene: A moisture and water-resistant fabric allows the Meditote to remain dry, with liquid rolling off easily, in turn reducing risk of bacteria breeding within healthcare environments.

Improved Meal Tray Placement: Having the tray table free of objects by placing them in the Meditote, allows for the meal tray to be placed appropriately at meal times saving staff having to move these objects or placing the meal tray in an inappropriate place.

Commercial orders and enquiries

For all commercial or professional enquires please complete this simple form, or email us: admin@meditote.com.au

We provide discounts and customisation of colour, logo and design for bulk orders for hospitals, medical and aged care facilities as well as retailers of health and medical supplies.

Hospitals & Aged Care Facilities

Providing the Meditote to your patients or residents can help ensure that those short or long term patients have a safer environment during their stay. We suggest looking at the cost effective Polypropylene Meditote.

Retailers of Health & Medical Supplies including Pharmacies

If you wish to provide this product to the general public, we suggest looking at the hang-sell packaged Nylon Meditote.

Medical & Allied Health Centres

If you would like to consider utilising Meditote at your centre, we can supply brochures and a sample Meditote.

Please click here to request your brochures or for further enquiries.

Health Funds & Insurers

If you would like to provide branded Health Fund Meditotes to your existing or new clients please click here to make further enquiries.

Trialling the Meditote

Are you interested in trialling the Meditotes in your facility?

It is quick and easy, just click here and complete a simple request form.

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What they say.

Meditote was great to use when I went to hospital last time. It was really handy to have my things in one spot and not all over the table. I found it all compact and within easy reach. I will be using it again in August when I go back to hospital.
Speaking with a hospital domestic L.B. who had worked in hospitals for over 30 years, comments on the issues they faced when serving meals on a day to day basis. They would more than often find that a patient’s tray table was cluttered with not enough space to place down the meal tray. With tray in hand L.B. would have to try and make room with one hand while holding the tray in the other and if not successful would place the tray on a chair near in the room as time constraints did not allow for repositioning the patients items that cluttered their tray table. The ward was notified at times to have the tray tables cleared for the meal trays however the nursing staff were not able to clear them due to their own time constraints.
L.B.
During 2018 I had 3 hospitalisations. My level of frustration grew and grew as the staff kept moving my things to the bedside drawers that I couldn't reach. I wasn't supposed to get up as I was attached to lots of tubes. My wife also got worried because when she wasn't there I couldn't get my phone and iPad to keep in touch. I might be 90 but my techno skills are good so it was really problematic to be out of touch with everyone in the family. I didn't want to call the nurse all the time to get my things. In a month, I'm due to go back into hospital for a short stay and will be so happy to take the Meditote with me. It's going to be so easy to be able to have some control over my belongings!
Les - Brisbane
After recently being hospitalized for the first time for two weeks during an overseas holiday , I would have loved to have had a Meditote. There was never enough space on the tray table for everything that I needed close at hand. I was hooked up to monitors and drips and unable to move about the room. The Meditote would have been invaluable in keeping everything that I needed within easy reach. I hope not to go to hospital anytime soon but I will invest in one just in case!
Julie BE, Gold Coast
As soon as I heard about Meditote, I was sold. I’ve had personal experience as an inpatient and always struggled with the limits of the hospital tray table. My mother has had similar difficulties with the trolley table in her care facility. Seeing her contend with the difficulty of storing her personal belongings that needed to be close and handy, it cemented my thoughts about the benefits of this fantastic product.
Debra, Gold Coast