Doctor / consultant

Admit and discharge patients, set up care plans, order lab and imaging tests and follow results from your phone.

Doctor / consultant

Who this is for

You are a consultant, resident or duty doctor in a hospital company. Your role is Doctor / consultant. CareList gives you the ward board, each patient's care plan and the test orders for your patients. You can admit, edit, re-admit and discharge patients, plan care and order tests. You do not collect samples or sign off reports, and you do not see the management screens.

Note: The doctor role is only offered to hospital companies. Diagnostic centres record the referring doctor as a name on the test order.

What you see

Home has a Patients tile with a red badge for overdue care tasks and a Diagnostics tile with a badge for test orders that have breached their TAT.

Your day

1. Start of round. Open Patients. The top cards show Admitted now and Overdue care tasks. Patients with an overdue checklist have a red left border. Filter by ward, or search by name, UHID or bed.
2. At each bed. Tap the patient, or scan the bedside QR with Scan. Read the red Allergies box, the open care-plan checklists and the completed ones (with their scores).
3. Plan care. Add or change care-plan checklists, and order tests where needed.
4. During the day. Check Diagnostics for your patients' orders. A red Critical chip means the lab has phoned through a panic value.
5. Discharges. Make sure the Discharge Readiness Checklist is done, then discharge.

Step by step

Admit a patient

1. Go to Patients and tap + Admit.
2. Fill in Full name and UHID / MRN (both required; each UHID can be used only once in your company). Add gender, blood group, date of birth, phone and attendant if you have them.
3. Under Admission, set Admitted on, Ward, Bed no., Attending doctor and Primary nurse (optional).
4. Add Diagnosis / reason for admission, Allergies and Other notes.
5. Leave Start the standard care plan ticked to create the admission assessment, vitals every 4 hours, a nursing round each shift, a daily medication check and a daily fall-risk check. They go to the primary nurse, or to you if no nurse is set.
6. Tap Admit patient.

Add a checklist to the care plan

1. On the patient page, open Add checklist to care plan.
2. Pick the checklist, then a frequency: Once, Every 4 hours, Every 6 hours, Every 8 hours (each shift), Every 12 hours or Daily.
3. Choose who does it. Assign to: primary nurse / me is the default.
4. Optionally set First due. If you leave it blank, the first one is due in 1 hour.
5. Tap Add to care plan. The assignee gets a notification.

If the patient has no open checklists, Start standard care plan adds the five standard checklists in one tap. Apply standard care plan instead does the same from the add form and skips any that are already open.

Order lab or imaging tests

1. On the patient page, tap Order lab / imaging tests. The patient's name, UHID, age, gender, phone and doctor are filled in for you, and Source is set to IPD.
2. Choose Laboratory or Imaging, then type the tests in Tests / studies requested (separate them with commas or put one per line).
3. Set Priority: Routine (24 h TAT), Urgent (4 h) or STAT (1 h).
4. Add Clinical notes / preparation, for example fasting status or a contrast allergy.
5. Keep Attach the protocol checklist ticked so the sample-collection or imaging-safety checklist is created.
6. Tap Register order. The order gets an accession number such as DX-000012.

You can also start from Diagnostics → + New order and choose the admitted patient from the list.

Follow a result

Open the order from Diagnostics or from the link on the patient. The pipeline shows each step with its time, the TAT against its target and any Critical result banner. You can Edit an open order, or close it with Reject / cancel (Cancel for imaging) and a reason. Only the lab and imaging teams move it through the next steps.

Discharge and re-admit

1. Complete the Discharge Readiness Checklist, or have it completed. Add it to the care plan with frequency Once.
2. Tap Discharge at the top of the patient page. This jumps to the Discharge patient box.
3. Add an optional discharge note and tap Discharge, then confirm. Any open checklists are closed and no new repeats are created.
4. If the patient comes back, open them under Discharged and tap Re-admit. Then tap Start standard care plan to restart care.

What you can't do

Try it

Sign in as doctor@hospital.test with the password password. Open Patients → Anita Rao to see a standard care plan with a penicillin allergy. Then tap Order lab / imaging tests. See also wf-patient-stay and wf-lab-test-order.