Ward, Rooms and Beds
For a hospital to be able to host patients overnight there must be a place where the patients we'll stay. In this section you'll learn how to configure inaya so that it understands how such a place is organized in your hospital.
Concepts
The physical place which will host admitted patients in inaya is logically organized into wards, rooms and beds. Let's explores this more
Beds
A bed, like its literal meaning, is the exact place where a patient is going to sleep. A single bed can host one patient. Beds are normally given a name. In most hospitals this is just a number, i.e a bed number.
A bed is a physical thing, if you walk in into the In-Patient department of a hospital you will see physical beds.
Rooms
Beds are normally kept in a room. Some rooms contain only one bed e.g VIP Rooms. Some other rooms may contain more than one bed. Each room is normally given a name to uniquely identify it.
Wards
Rooms are further organized into wards. A single ward a made up of one or more rooms.
Furthermore, wards are organized into categories. The type of categories to have are left to the discretion of the hospital.
Configuration
Now that we have a basic understanding of how the physical space in In-Patient is organised lets learn how we configure it in inaya.
Ward Categories
To configure categories navigate to
Configure -> Patient -> Wards -> Ward Categories
This will give you an inaya Table With Search.
Getting into the add mode of Ward Categories will give you the following view.
Field | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|
Name | Yes | The name of the category |
Description | False | An explanation of what this category implements |
Ward Structure
To configure the ward, its rooms and beds navigate to
Configure -> Patient -> Wards -> Ward Manager
The ward manager will be used to add the wards looks as below