Sarcasm, if that wasn’t obvs. The highlighted comment is explaining what the device does.
The comment directly below it pointing out that it’s in a red power outlet is referring to the fact that red power outlets in hospitals almost if not universally denote outlets connected to gas generators (or another type of fuel that can be kept onsite). Red outlets won’t lose power if the city or other local power grid fails, so those red outlets are supposed to be reserved for truly essential equipment like ventilators and IV pumps running critical meds that can’t be interrupted for even a few minutes. And they plugged the employee surveillance device into one.
Can someone explain what that device is?
The nurses and nursing assistants all have to wear trackers that track to see if they go near a hand sanitizer station or sink within 30 seconds after entering and 30 seconds before leaving a room. It’s to check for handwashing compliance but in addition to being a narrow and error-prone window it also doesn’t account for other common situations like poking your head into a room to check on someone while on the way to something else and not touching anything or anyone. It creates a situation where you’re better off just breezing through and ignoring a patient calling to you because if you go over there to acknowledge them but don’t have time to set down whatever you’re in the middle of, it’ll hurt your metrics. They might just need a cup of water you could grab and drop off on your way back in the other direction but fuck 'em, admin says you need to make a whole entry and exit ceremony of asking them what they need to keep your numbers up, so they’ll have to wait until you have time for that.
That said, consistent hand-washing like that has been proven to reduce hospital based infections quite a bit and compliance to regulations alone is often very poor.
You can argue that understaffing is the ultimate cause of poor compliance, but then again… the number of anti-vaxxers in hospital staff is surprisingly high.
