nursing home signage

Which Nursing Home Signs Do Residents Need For Their Resident Rooms?

Your seniors spend a large chunk of their day in their individual or shared rooms, so it’s vital to ensure your resident rooms are outfitted with the proper interior signage. Let’s start with resident room signs. Use these resident room number signs to identify the occupants that make up each of your rooms. We recommend using patient room number signs or room numbers with patient picture signs because they include name slots or photos to distinguish each bedroom within your facility further. If you want to go the extra mile to serve your residents, we recommend installing memory care shadow box displays outside their rooms. Filled with residents’ photos and mementos, these shadow boxes house warm memories, improve memory retention, and add an additional layer of personalization.

Your nursing home residents require various services and support, and nursing home signs help identify residents’ needs and conditions. If you have residents on oxygen or other life-saving equipment, for example, ensure their safety by installing oxygen safety signs outside their door. These signs stress that smoking and open flames are prohibited in or around their rooms due to sensitive equipment. In addition, patient care signs can be affixed to metal door frames or resident beds, and they specify patient requirements and restrictions nurses and caregivers must enforce. In a similar capacity, door hanger signs are another noticeable way for caregivers, nursing staff, and other employees to be cognizant of patient needs and restrictions.

Since staff members at your care home typically handle laundry, residents do not need to worry about pouring detergent or separating loads. But they will need laundry tags for their clothes and garments. Our reusable laundry tags are personalized with each resident’s room number and make it easy for staff to tell laundry bags and hampers apart.

Wayfinding Signs and Safety Signs for Nursing Home Residents and Visitors

Does your nursing home facility have the proper wayfinding signs and safety signs to help guide residents and visitors? Our rule of thumb: if you think something should be identified, it probably does. Interior ADA signage is an important component of every healthcare facility, especially for those who may experience memory loss or disorientation. You will want to maximize your use of wayfinding signs and safety signs around your care center or nursing home facility.

Let’s start with your common rooms and areas. Use room name signs to identify rooms such as your laundry room, activities room, sitting room, library, chapel, and dining room. Each room sign is ADA-compliant with raised text and grade 2 Braille. Then, use informational signs to reinforce protocols and directives. For example, rooms of restricted access would need authorized personnel only signs, or rooms where smoking is not allowed would require no smoking signs. Don’t forget about your facility’s restrooms and washrooms—identify each toilet with restroom signs.

Now that you’ve labeled each private and common room, how do you help people find their way around your nursing facility? The answer is wayfinding signs. These professionally-designed directional signs assist residents’ out-of-town visitors or even prospective families who tour your care facility. In tandem with directional signs, you’ll also need to have your residents’ safety in mind and outfit your facility with life safety signs.

Need to refresh your nursing center’s social distancing signs? Protect residents, visitors, and staff with sneeze guards, face covering required signs, hand sanitizer holders, and other essential social distancing products.

Which Memory Care Signs Help with Memory Retention?

If your memory care or nursing home senior residents need assistance with memory improvement or retention, they may benefit from message board signs and specialized resident room signs. Our message display boards include assistive products designed to help a resident’s memory who may be afflicted with dementia or Alzheimers, including reality orientation boards, and shadow box displays. And of course, these boards can also display important general information—use menu insert boards to feature the day’s food choices or activity display boards for listing activities going on at your nursing facility, for example. Tablet sign holders are a more tech-savvy signage option in which a Lenovo tablet is housed within a sturdy enclosure, displaying photos of the patient or their family members in an easy to access way. In turn, these tablet sign holders facilitate a patient’s memory retention.

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At HealthcareSigns.com, we work hard to ensure every sign we produce is compliant with ADA specifications and pertinent building and fire code regulations. Our signs display proper color contrast and feature raised text and grade 2 Braille when applicable. Place an order at your convenience, and you’ll be on your way to receiving robust, durable, and aesthetically pleasing signs for your nursing home or memory care facility.

We understand how important adherence to the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) is. HealthcareSigns.com goes the extra mile and staffs an in-house Compliance and Regulatory team whose job is to research pertinent guidelines and make sure you are receiving code-compliant signage every time. Because of this commitment, we are proud to offer our ADA Sign Compliance Guarantee. If a building inspection shows that your healthcare signage is not ADA-compliant, we will fix them or produce a new compliant sign at no cost to you. It’s what we do.

Learn more about our commitment to ADA compliance and excellence by reviewing our ADA signage guidelines.