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Wards and Inpatient Care

Use the bed board

Available to

Nurses, registration officers, clinicians.

The bed board shows every bed in your facility, grouped by ward, with its current state and the patient in it. It is the starting point for admitting a patient.

Read the board

  1. Open Wards and select Bed Board.
  2. Read each bed card: the bed code, its type, a coloured state, and the patient number when the bed is occupied.
  3. To narrow the board, type in Search or use the filters Available, Occupied, Cleaning, Blocked / Maintenance and Isolation Capable. You can also group by Ward, Status or Bed Type.
  4. Select the list icon at the top right to see the same beds as a table with ward, room, department and gender policy.
The bed board: one column per ward, one card per bed. Available beds show an Admit button.
The bed board: one column per ward, one card per bed. Available beds show an Admit button.

What the colours mean

Bed stateMeaning
AvailableEmpty, clean and ready. The card shows Admit.
OccupiedA patient with an active encounter is in the bed.
CleaningThe patient has left and the bed is waiting to be cleaned. It cannot be used yet.
BlockedTaken out of use on purpose, with a recorded reason.
MaintenanceTaken out of use for repair.

To admit a patient into a bed, select Admit on an available card. The admission form opens with the facility, ward and bed already filled in. See Admit, transfer and discharge a patient.

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