Wards and beds

Set up wards and beds with a rate a night under Clinic → Setup → Wards and beds. A clinic with none keeps admitting from the front desk with a bed typed in.

Clinic → Wards is the bed board: every bed free, taken or out of service. Admit into a free bed; a taken bed cannot be given twice. The patient's stay file has Overview, Notes, Vitals, Medicines, Tests, Charges and Bill.

• Move a patient to another bed: the nights so far stay at the old bed's rate.
• Notes: nursing notes and ward rounds, with who and when.
• Medicines: each dose given or held, by whom and when. A dose given from the pharmacy goes on the bill.
• Charges: a service or an item from stock, removable until the bill.
• Deposit: money taken at admission sits on the patient's account and meets the bill at discharge; only the rest is taken. More deposit than bill stays on the account to refund.
• Bill: the running total at any time and a printed interim bill. At discharge pay by cash, wallet, on account or the insurer. The Discharge summary letter is one click from the stay.