Ward View
The Ward View shows all patients who are currently admitted to a specific location. The Admission Request list shows all patients who are waiting to be admitted to the ward. Each card on the Ward View represents a patient. The card displays key information collected during that visit including bed assignment, name, age, EMRID, time since admission, time on this ward, and key clinical data.
If the patient is admitted to delivery a baby, when that infant is registered as a patient in the EMR and admitted to the same ward as the mother, infant will appear connect to the mother’s card with the tag Mother/Child. If the patient’s infant is admitted to a different ward, the infant will appear as a row on the mother’s card with the admission location of the infant.
A patient may be admitted and not assigned to a bed. Their card will appear on the bottom of the ward view with no bed number. More than one patient can be assigned to a bed at the same time.
The ward metrics displayed on the top of the view show:
Patients: This is the number of patients admitted to this ward (assigned to a bed or not)
Free beds: This shows the number of empty beds
Capacity: This shows the number of patients admitted to this ward divided by the number of beds. This number could be over 100% if patients are sharing beds or are unassigned to beds
Pending out: This shows the number of patients who are waiting to be transferred to another ward.
The following actions are available in the Ward View by clicking on a patient card.
Patient dashboard: provides summary information about the patient that was documented during their pregnancy for women or while they were a neonate for infants. The Full Dashboard link will take the user to the full summary dashboard.
Visit Summary: Complete clinical forms and view/edit any clinical forms completed during this visit.
Inpatient Notes: Take notes during the patient’s visit and view any notes already documented for this patient.
Transfer: Transfer a patient to another ward or transfer a patient to a new bed on this ward.
Discharge a patient: Discharge a patient from the hospital. This will unassign them from a bed and end their visit.
Dispensing
The outpatient pharmacy will receive all Drug Orders created by clinicians during a patient’s visit. These Orders will appear in the Pharmacy app either in the “Active Prescriptions” or “All Prescriptions” tab. The Order will contain the drug name, formulation, route, duration, and quantity prescribed. Each Order may contain more than one prescribed medication. If there is more than one prescribed medication in the Order, each can be dispensed independently of each other.
If the prescribed medication or formulation needs to be modified, the pharmacy should ask the clinician to update drug order. Currently the pharmacy staff does not have the permission to change the drugs or formulation of prescriptions created by the clinicians (this is PIH specific).
In the pharmacy, the Prescriptions can have the following statuses:
Active: At least one medication in the Order has not been fully dispensed and is not paused
Completed: All medications have been dispensed
Paused: At least one medication in the Order is Paused and all others are either dispensed, closed, or completed
Expired: The Order is expired after 90 days, and it has not been dispensed
Closed: All medications have been closed
The Pharmacy can take the follow actions within the pharmacy app:
Dispense: This will indicate the medication has been dispensed to the patient. The Quantity will be auto populated with the Quantity prescribed. This can be edited to a number less than what was prescribed (in the case of stock outs). The Quantity cannot be changed to an amount that is greater than what was prescribed.
Pause: This will indicate the medication can’t be dispensed right now but will be dispensed at a later day.
Close: This will indicate that this medication is not going to be dispensed.
Pharmacists can print out medication labels to stick on bags or bottles that contain the medication being dispensed.