• Assessment – through use of various nursing tools which include of the “Daily Patient Progress (DPP)” chart; observation screens; wound/pressure care/fluid/pain management aids.
• Planning – a comprehensive care planning system is prompted by the care requirements indicated by “per shift” reports taken from the DPP and other observational screens.
• Implementation – real-time recording of care delivery ensures continuity of care.
• Evaluation – instant access to current and historical data allows trends, deficits and improvements to be rapidly identified so that speedy intervention and modifications to patient care can be made.

Where possible, screens are grouped together so that the functionality required to complete a particular process i.e. Daily Patient Progress, can be accessed easily and logically.

Key Functionality

• Nursing Admission - Records admission data for a patient.
• Property Checklist - Property/valuables checklist data recorded for a patient.
• Nursing Discharge - Discharge data is recorded and discharge functions initiated for a patient.
• Daily Patient Progress – A record of daily or per shift assessments based upon Roper et al “Activities of Daily Living”. Data can be summarised in different views such as weekly, by ward etc.
• Plan Of Care - Displays all active Plans of Care within the selected Care Context.
• Nursing Summary - Displays a summary of care plans and actions taken, over a 72 hour period. Highlighted activity includes dependency review, latest daily patient progress, assessments and invasive devices data.
• Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool – A national screening tool to identify and plan care for nutritionally vulnerable patients.
• Braden Scale© - A clinically validated tool to predict the risk, aid prevention and govern the management of pressure ulcers.
• Fall Assessment - A patient risk-scoring tool to aid management of falls prevention strategies.
• Patient Handling And Movement – A risk-management scoring tool in accordance with national guidelines on the safe moving & handling of patients.
• Invasive Device / Visual Phlebitis Scale - Records all invasive devices inserted into the patient.
• Bristol Stool Scale - Diagnostic classification aid.
• Skin Assessment – Record, review & plan care using Body Chart imaging.
  
• Repositioning Plan – Enables planning of pressure care management in conjunction with recommendations from Braden assessment.
• Pain management – Record, review and plan Body Chart imaging.
• Observations – a number of screens to allow recording of data including Fluid Management, Vital Signs, Oxygen Saturation, Urinalysis, Blood Sugar, Glasgow Coma Scale.
• System For Evaluating The Critically Sick – Early warning system to alert nursing staff when vital signs are recorded outside of the configured parameters. The user can input the actions taken and why the score/observations are abnormal.
• Clinical Pathways – Provides access to Clinical Pathway documents relevant to that patient.
• Patient Flags - to alert staff to events where action is urgently needed e.g. exceeded timescales for removal of invasive devices; incomplete assessments; identified patient risks with no associated plan of care.

Benefits

• Simplified use as information is presented in a concise and meaningful navigation bar.
• Always available to authorised users to provide real time information.
• Full monitoring by nurses of all patient activities in a ward.
• Immediate information available for shift handovers so incoming shift can see current status of each patient.
• Enhanced Patient Safety via recording of safety critical data.
• Reduced Patient Risk as clinical staff have an instant view of the actual and planned care delivery.
• Provides total flexibility as the HCO can construct new screens as required.
• Improved efficiency and reduced risk through easy and immediate access to all patient information including historical data.
• Supports management control as assessment and monitoring of procedures and activity undertaken within the wards is provided through the reporting tools.
• Immediate, intuitive and efficient access to up-to-date patient information using a standard web browser (IE6) to view and maintain data.
• Improved user performance as screens can be set up to match working practices for each class of user.
• Assists with care delivery process as workflow is supported for each class of user.
• Immediate access to supporting data through the use of the “drilling down” technique.
• Quick, intuitive and structured data entry ensured by the use of dialogue boxes containing drop down lists.
• Reduces training overload through the use of a Web based system.
• Rapid and easy deployment via local and wide area networking through the use of internet browsing technology.
• Reduces hardware requirements through the use of web functionality thus reducing implementation cost.