MediNous Modules
Nursing Module
Nursing module is a tool provided in the hospital management system software to the nurses to manage their routine tasks with the objective of improving patient care. It is tightly integrated with the Inpatient module and other clinical modules for smooth flow of information.
Some of the features of this module are
- Patient Charting: A patient’s vital signs, admission and nursing assessments and nursing notes can be entered into the system. These are the stored in a central repository and retrieved when needed.
- Staff Schedules: Nurse can self schedule their shifts using scheduling rules provided in shift modules. The shifts can later be confirmed or changed by a scheduling coordinator or manager.
- Clinical Data Integration: Here clinical information from all the disciplines can be retrieved, viewed and analyzed by nursing staff.
- Improved workload functionality: Staffing levels and appropriate skill mix per shift can be more easily determined by the shift modules.
- Better care planning: Time spent on care planning is reduced, while the quality of what is recorded is improved. This makes for more complete care plans and more complete assessments and evaluations.
- Better drug administration: Electronically prescribed drugs are more legible, thus making it less likely that drugs would be wrongly administered to patients.
The Nursing module comprises of the following features, viz:
- Nurse duty roster
- Change in duty roster
- Medical observations
- Patient activity charting
- Task Allocation (general)
- Recording vitals, nursing notes
- Recording dispensing of medicine
- Admission, Discharge and Room Transfer
