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Hospital ERP for Nurses

For GNM, B.Sc Nursing, Post Basic B.Sc Nursing, ANM

A ward nurse's work in the hospital system: the shift and handover, bedside observations and the early warning score, giving medicines, beds, orders and discharge, ward charges, the theatre checklist and your own HR. Then running the ward as the nurse in charge: staffing, stock and indents, and equipment.

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What you'll learn

The units follow the order the work is learned on the floor. Each task is shown on the real screens, then practised.

Roles you'll practiseNurse

Part 1 · Caring for patients

Unit 1Getting started
  1. Start a shift with the nurse dashboard
  2. Receive a shift handover
  3. Record vital signs
  4. Score the early warning score (EWS)
  5. Give and record a medication dose
  6. Record intake and output
  7. Write a nurse note
  8. Write a shift handover note
Unit 2The shift's tasks
  1. Complete an assigned task
  2. Escalate a task
Unit 3Bedside care
  1. Review a patient's vital signs over time
  2. Record a point-of-care test
  3. Score a patient's acuity
  4. Record a patient's allergy
  5. Add a nursing diagnosis to the care plan
  6. Update care plan progress
Unit 4Beds and the ward
  1. Find a free bed
  2. Transfer a patient to another bed
  3. Record a procedure in the procedure room
Unit 5Orders, forms and discharge
  1. Record a verbal or telephone order
  2. Check if a verbal order is approved
  3. Fill in a nursing form
  4. Print an earlier nursing form
  5. Send a discharge intimation (nurse)
Unit 6Ward charges and bills
  1. Charge a nursing service
  2. Charge for equipment
  3. Stop an equipment charge
  4. Charge a doctor visit
  5. Add pending orders to a bill
  6. Add unbilled ward charges to a bill
  7. Make a bill and take payment
  8. Collect an amount due
  9. Print or share a bill
Unit 7Theatre nursing: the surgery checklist
  1. Open a surgery's checklist
  2. Complete the pre-op checklist
  3. Record the patient's transfer to theatre
  4. Check the patient in to theatre
  5. Do the surgical time-out
  6. Record the intraoperative nursing record
  7. Complete the sign-out
  8. Record the post-op summary
  9. Complete and print the OT summary
Unit 8Your own HR
  1. Clock in and out of your shift
  2. Check an employee's attendance
  3. Request an attendance correction
  4. Apply for leave
  5. Request a shift change
  6. Request overtime

Part 2 · Running the ward

Unit 9Staffing the ward
  1. Review all tasks in the unit
  2. Assign a task to a nurse
  3. Check ward occupancy
  4. Plan the week's shifts
  5. See who's on leave
Unit 10Ward stock and indents
  1. Check what your store needs today
  2. Check stock and where it's kept
  3. Raise a store request by hand
  4. Act on low-stock and expiry alerts
  5. Correct stock after a count
Unit 11Ward equipment
  1. Report a problem with an asset
  2. Return an asset
  3. Receive a transferred asset
  4. Report damage on a received asset
  5. Sign off and complete a work order

Where it fits your syllabus

Each unit goes with a paper colleges already teach. Take it in the semester the paper is taught, so students practise on the hospital ERP what they study in class. Syllabi differ between universities: each programme here follows the one named. If yours is different, tell us and we'll map it.

B.Sc NursingIndian Nursing Council (KUHS, Kerala, the same)
  • Semester INursing Foundation I (documentation and reporting, vital signs, admission and discharge)Units 1, 4, 5
  • Semester IINursing Foundation II (medicines, intake and output, the nursing process)Units 1, 3, 5
  • Semester IIHealth/Nursing Informatics & Technology (HNIT 145)Units 1, 2, 3
  • Semester IIIAdult Health Nursing I (perioperative care)Unit 7
  • Semester IVPharmacology II (including prescribing)Units 1, 5
  • Semester IVAdult Health Nursing II (critical care)Units 1, 3
  • Semester VINursing Management & Leadership (NMLE 330)Units 8, 9, 10, 11
GNMIndian Nursing Council (2015)
  • Year 1Fundamentals of NursingUnits 1, 3, 4, 5
  • Year 1Computer EducationUnits 1, 2, 3
  • Year 2Medical Surgical Nursing I and IIUnits 3, 7
  • Year 3Nursing Administration and Ward ManagementUnits 8, 9, 10, 11
ANMIndian Nursing Council
  • Year 2Health Centre Management (its hospital posting: care of the sick, medicines, indents and stock)Units 1, 10

Practical pack for B.Sc Nursing, Semester II: Health/Nursing Informatics & Technology (HNIT 145). A 40-hour plan, and a skills checklist for each student, printed from your batch.

Putting it together

Data entry drill

Enter the 06:00 observations

The night nurse took four patients' observations on the paper chart. Enter each set on the Vital Signs screen.

From: Observation chart, Ward 3, 06:00 · 4 records

Data entry drill

Enter the bedside sugar checks

The day's finger-prick sugar checks are on the paper chart. Enter each one on the Point of Care screen.

From: Bedside glucose chart, Ward 3 · 4 records

Data entry drill

Enter the intake chart

Paul Harmon's fluid intake for the morning is on his paper chart. Enter each entry in the Intake Log.

From: Intake chart, bed 4 (Paul Harmon) · 4 records

Case scenario

A penicillin allergy on the morning shift

A patient with pneumonia is getting worse, and her first antibiotic dose is one she may be allergic to.

10 scenes · 3 decisions

Case scenario

Low urine output after surgery

A man back from abdominal surgery is passing very little urine, and the doctor gives an order over the phone.

9 scenes · 3 decisions

Case scenario

Discharge day: the charges and the paperwork

A patient is going home today, and her bill still has gaps: an oxygen charge that never stopped and dressings no one charged.

8 scenes · 3 decisions

Case scenario

A busy ward: who needs you first

Six patients, two nurses short, and a diabetic patient whose sugar is dropping.

8 scenes · 3 decisions

Case scenario

A patient who wants to leave

A patient admitted with chest pain says he's going home tonight, before the tests that would show whether it was his heart.

7 scenes · 2 decisions

Case scenario

Running short on the night shift

You take over a surgical ward at night and find the cannulas running low before a morning theatre list, with the main store closed until 08:00.

8 scenes · 3 decisions

How you'll learn

Show MeEach task, step by step, on the real screens
PracticeDo it yourself; wrong clicks say where to look
RefreshersTasks come back on day 1, 2, 7, 30 and 90
AssessmentTasks, decisions and data entry, timed, with no hints; pass at 70%
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Certificate of completion

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Hospital ERP for Nurses

and passed its assessment with

Grade A+ · Excellent
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