Care Station and the Units board
The nurse's Care Station - the vitals queue for checked-in patients, recording vitals, and the Units board for beds and rooms.
Care Station is the nurse's workspace. Its Appointments view is a queue of checked-in patients waiting for vitals, and its Units view is a live board of the centre's beds, rooms and other units. This page is for nurses and for the administrators who set up units.
Who sees Care Station
Care Station appears in the sidebar for staff whose staff type is Nurse, and for administrators. Everything on Care Station is for the centre selected in the top bar.
Use the Appointments and Units toggle at the top to switch views. The Tasks button opens your task worklist; see Your task worklist.
The vitals queue
The Appointments view lists only checked-in appointments in the date range (today by default). A patient appears here once the front desk checks them in and leaves the list when their appointment moves on, for example when the doctor begins the consultation.
Tab | Shows |
|---|---|
All | Every checked-in patient in the date range |
Pending | Patients without vitals for this appointment yet |
Completed | Patients whose vitals are recorded |
Column | What it shows |
|---|---|
# | Position in the list, in slot order |
Patient | Name, age and gender |
Doctor | The appointment's doctor |
Visit Type | New, Existing, Follow-Up or Repeat |
Appointment Start Time | The slot start time |
Wait Time | The gap between the slot start time and the check-in time |
Vital Status | Pending or Completed |
Action | Record Vitals or View Vitals |
Vital Status is Completed when a valid vitals record exists for that appointment. Once vitals are recorded, the row's button changes from Record Vitals to View Vitals.
Recording vitals
Open the patient
NurseCare Station
On the Pending tab, click Record Vitals for the patient.
Expected result: The patient page opens with the tabs Record Vitals, Medical History and Patient Analytics.
Choose the form, if needed
If your hospital publishes more than one vitals form, pick the right one with the form picker next to the tabs.
Enter the readings
Fill in the readings your form asks for. You must enter at least one value. If you enter weight and height, BMI is calculated for you.
Submit
Click the form's submit button.
Expected result: You see Vitals form submitted and return to the queue. The patient moves to the Completed tab.
The Record Vitals tab is hidden for a patient whose vitals are already completed. Open the patient with View Vitals to see their Medical History, where the vitals snapshot appears with its values. To add documents for the patient, use Upload Document on the Medical History tab.
Field rules, units, BMI and what happens to incorrect readings are described in Vitals and clinical notes.
Check readings before submitting
A submitted vitals record cannot be edited or marked invalid from any screen in LeapHealthOS. Read each value back before you submit, especially blood pressure, temperature unit and weight.
The Units board
The Units view shows every active unit of the selected centre as a card, grouped by unit type (for example ward beds, rooms or recliners). Units are the centre's resources; your administrator sets them up with the centre in Settings. See Departments and units.
Each card shows the unit's code and name and one of these states:
State | Meaning |
|---|---|
Free | Nobody is in the unit and it is not blocked |
Occupied | One or more patients are in the unit. Each occupancy shows how long ago it started. A unit that holds more than one patient shows, for example, 2 of 4 occupied. |
Blocked | The unit is out of use, with the block reason and since when |
The board refreshes automatically, so changes made by colleagues appear without reloading.
Actions on a unit
Button | Shown when | What it does |
|---|---|---|
Admit patient… | The unit has a free place | Opens Admit a patient. Search for and pick the patient, then click Admit. |
Block… | The unit has a free place | Opens Block this unit. Pick a reason, then click Block. |
Release | The unit is occupied or blocked | Opens Release this unit? Click Release. The unit reads Free the moment it is released. |
Move to… | The unit is occupied or blocked | Opens Move to another unit. Pick a free unit of the same type in Target unit, then click Move. |
If a unit holds more than one occupancy, Release and Move ask Which occupancy you mean.
Admit a patient to a bed
NurseCare Station
Switch the toggle to Units, find a Free unit and click Admit patient….
Pick the patient
Type the patient's name in Patient and choose them from the list.
Confirm
Click Admit.
Expected result: The card shows Occupied with the time since admission.
Block reasons have no settings screen
Block reasons come from a hospital-wide list that is not available in Tenant Registry. If the Block dialog says No block reasons set up yet, ask your implementation team to add the reasons your hospital uses.
Troubleshooting
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Consultations (doctor workspace)
The doctor's consultation queue and workspace - tabs, Begin Consultation, the consultation form, and what one submit records.
Vitals and clinical notes
Rules for recording vitals and consultation notes - open visits, required values, BMI, diagnosis types, follow-up, and where the records appear.