Nurse Station

How to find this page

1. 1

   Sign in to EliteHMS

2. 2

   Select Nurse Station from the left-hand menu

What this page is for

Nurse Station brings together key information for active IPD admissions: the patient’s ward and bed, scheduled medicine doses, recorded vital signs, and medicine requests sent to the pharmacy.

It uses admissions and medicine orders created elsewhere in EliteHMS:

• Admit patients through IPD Management.
• Set up wards and beds in Ward & Beds.
• Add medicine orders in the patient’s IPD admission.

Find a patient

The left panel lists active inpatients. Search by the patient’s name, bed number, or ward. Select a patient to open their details on the right.

Each patient entry can show their ward and bed, days admitted, admission diagnosis, active medicine orders, and a summary of today’s scheduled doses. An overdue marker highlights pending doses whose scheduled times have passed.

Review the MAR

The MAR tab is the Medicine Administration Record. It lists doses scheduled for the selected patient, grouped by time. Choose a date to review that day’s record, then use refresh if you need to reload it.

For today’s pending doses, the available actions are:

• Given: Record that the dose was given.
• Skip: Record that the dose was not given.
• Refused: Record that the patient refused it.

The screen shows the dose’s medicine, dosage, route, status, and, when recorded, who marked it and when. Pending doses from earlier today may be highlighted as overdue.

Record and review vital signs

Open the Vitals tab to record one or more readings:

• Blood Pressure in mmHg
• Pulse in bpm (beats per minute)
• Temperature in °C
• SpO₂ in percent (oxygen saturation)
• Blood Sugar in mg/dL
• Weight in kg
• Notes for observations

1. 1

   Open the Vitals tab

2. 2

   Enter at least one reading

3. 3

   Select Record Vitals

The app records the time and staff member and shows recent entries in the history. The screen displays up to the latest 20 records.

The app sends alerts for some preset readings, including very low or high pulse, SpO₂ below 90%, temperature above 39.5°C, and blood sugar above 400 mg/dL.

Request medicine from the pharmacy

Select Request Med in the patient header, or open Requests and choose New Request.

1. 1

   Search the inventory for a medicine, or enter its name manually

2. 2

   Enter the required quantity

   Dosage and route can also be added.

3. 3

   Select urgency: Routine, Urgent, or STAT

4. 4

   Add notes if needed, then select Send to Pharmacy

Pending requests for the selected patient appear in the Requests tab. The app can notify nursing staff when pharmacy marks a request dispensed.

Alerts and notifications

The bell button shows overdue-dose alerts. Select it to view the overdue list, which includes the patient, ward or bed, medicine, scheduled time, and how late the dose is. The page also shows a pending-request count when requests are outstanding.

Helpful terms

• IPD: Inpatient Department; care for patients staying in the hospital.
• MAR: Medicine Administration Record; a record of scheduled doses and what happened to them.
• SpO₂: A reading of the oxygen level in the blood.
• STAT: An instruction that something is needed immediately.
• Overdue dose: A pending dose whose scheduled time has passed.