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Ward nurse guide

Runs a ward shift: observations, medicine rounds, early warnings, handover and the beds.

The demo opens as Lakshmi Nair, with invented patients. A ward of admitted patients, the drug chart, and the doses due this hour.
  • Every dose given on time and charted
  • Observations recorded and early warnings escalated
  • A clean handover every shift
  • Beds turned round quickly
Your front door

Where the ward nurse lands

Signing in as a ward nurse opens My shift first. The sidebar keeps the screens below one click away; what you can open is whatever your practice’s role for you allows.

  • My shift /home/nurseYour ward: tasks, early warnings, results and medicine rounds
  • Wards /ipdAdmit patients, manage beds, discharge properly
  • Medicine rounds /marScan patient and drug before every dose
  • Early warning /ewsWarning scores from vitals, with response clocks
  • Handover /handoverShift handover with tasks that carry over
  • Beds /bedsSee every bed: free, occupied or cleaning
  • Care plans /careplansPut patients on care programmes with due dates, transplant biopsies included
  • Discharge /dischargeDischarge patients step by step, nothing forgotten
Everyday apps

Apps a ward nurse uses

WardLineAdmit patients, manage beds, discharge properlyeMARScan patient and drug before every doseEarlyWarnWarning scores from vitals, with response clocksHandOverShift handover with tasks that carry overBedBoardSee every bed: free, occupied or cleaningCarePlansPut patients on care programmes with due dates, transplant biopsies includedDischargeLineDischarge patients step by step, nothing forgotten
Rain

What to ask Rain

Rain is the assistant in every screen, by voice or text. These are requests the assistant is taught for this role. It reads only what you may read, and anything that changes a record comes back as a card you confirm.

  • “Open my ward”
  • “Show the eMAR”
  • “Which doses are due in the next hour?”
  • “I have scanned and given bed 7’s ceftriaxone, record it”
  • “Mark the CBC sample for bed 3 as collected”
  • “Report a fall near bed 9 at night, no harm done”
  • “Record temperature 38.2 and SpO2 96 for bed 7”
  • “Open early warning scores”
  • “Bed 5 ka pulse 92 aur BP 110 by 70 likho”
  • “Agle ghante mein kaunsi dawai deni hai?”
  • “वार्ड दिखाओ”

What Rain prepares for a ward nurse to confirm: record vital signs for a patient; create a to-do for yourself, a colleague or a team; move an admitted patient to another bed; register a new patient; order lab tests for a patient; admit a patient to a free bed; draft the bill for a patient’s closed visit (not finalised); mark a patient’s lab sample as collected; record a scanned dose as given on the eMAR; record a payment against a patient’s bill; report a safety incident for the quality team to review; add a patient’s SBAR note to the ward’s open handover; tick off a task from the ward handover; mark one of your to-dos (or your team’s) done; record an early-warning (NEWS2) observation set for an in-patient; record your response to an open early-warning escalation; record a fluid intake or output for an in-patient; record a pain score (0 to 10) for an in-patient; record a wound assessment (size and exudate) on an open wound; record a restraint check (circulation, skin, fluids offered); record a daily line/tube review (still needed or not); close a shift goal on a patient’s nursing care plan (met, partly or not met); order an in-patient’s diet for the kitchen; add a ward-round note to an in-patient’s stay; ask for a porter (a transfer, a sample run, equipment or a pharmacy run); issue a visitor pass for an in-patient’s visitor; reject a sample: cancel its test with the reason, to be collected again; receive a sample at the lab from a courier manifest; record stock used from a ward or room’s shelf; move a patient’s imaging worklist entry (arrived, started, completed or discontinued); check a patient in for today’s appointment (opens the visit and the queue token); log a complaint (grievance) as the person made it; raise a refund request against a patient’s payment (approved by someone else); make a price quote (estimate) for a patient from the clinic’s price list; take an advance deposit against an in-patient’s stay; approve a colleague’s petty-cash expense claim; reject a colleague’s expense claim, with the reason; take a bed-cleaning (turnover) job; finish cleaning a bed you took (the checklist, and anything not done); log a weighed bag of biomedical waste by colour category; log a patient a referring doctor sent in; acknowledge a referral to the doctor who sent it; move an ambulance run to its next step (dispatched, on scene, transporting, arrived, closed); send a patient their signed lab report, as the PDF; send a patient their discharge summary, as the PDF; send a patient their signed certificate, as the PDF.

Say “Brief me” for a spoken summary of your day. More in the Rain guide and on what each role says.

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