You are designing a nurse call system for an assisted care facility. What type of nurse call system would best suit the needs for the facility?

An audiovisual system typically implies a more feature-rich configuration with enhanced media capabilities that exceed the basic alerting requirements of an assisted care facility.

A staff emergency system is specifically designed to allow staff to call for help in dangerous situations, not to manage routine patient-to-staff call requests in assisted living.

A Tone/Visual system uses audible tones and visual corridor indicators to alert staff of patient requests, which matches the level of care complexity in an assisted living facility where residents need basic call capability without the advanced two-way audio or integrated monitoring features required in acute care settings. This system type is cost-effective and sufficient for the supervision model used in assisted care environments.

A bedside system is a more complex, full-featured nurse call configuration typically deployed in acute care hospitals where patients require direct two-way communication and integration with clinical monitoring systems.