Before you start
You need one of these roles:owner, admin, medical_director, clinician or nurse. Your wards and beds must be set up first. See Departments, wards and beds.
Steps
See bed occupancy
1
Open the bed board
In the sidebar, under Operations, click Bed occupancy. This opens
/hospital/operations/beds.2
Pick a ward
Choose a ward, or All wards.
3
Read the board
Each bed is Occupied, Available, Reserved, Cleaning or Out of service. An occupied bed shows the patient’s name, age and sex, day of stay and service. Diagnoses are never shown on the board.
The admission queue
1
Open the queue
Under Operations, click Admission queue. This opens
/hospital/operations/admit.2
Read the queue
Each row shows the Patient, Ward type needed, Requesting doctor, Urgency and how long they have been Waiting. Emergencies are pinned to the top.
3
Act on a request
A doctor clicks Assign bed, chooses a bed, adds a Working diagnosis and Acuity, and clicks Assign bed & admit. Anyone allowed can Skip or Cancel a request.
Only doctors (role
clinician) can assign a bed. Owners, admins and nurses can see the queue, but Assign bed is refused for them.What you can do here
- See live bed occupancy by ward.
- Follow who is waiting for a bed.
- Open an occupied bed to see the patient’s observations chart, if you have access.