In this tutorial, you will learn about Patient Discharge

View the tutorial video.

 

The ability to proceed to data entry is conditional to the presence of action day record and admission.
 

If no action day or Admission information are entered, the only available tabs are Patient Notes, Admission, Diagnosis.

Case with no admission:
 

Case with a discharged status:
 

Case with a valid admission:
 

Before any enteral information can be added to a patient or any bed assignment can be done, a patient must have a current and valid admission and at least one action day record.



The following example provides a valid action day record.

 

With an appropriate admission, all tabs become available for any Action day.

 

Neonova allows you to keep a history of previous admission information.  However, only one active admission for a single patient is allowed.

 


Neonova does not allow admission deletion when action day information is present.  The following window message will appear.

 

Without Action day record, Neonova allows admission deletion.
 
The admission date:
 

 

Admission date:  you must provide a valid admission date, prior to the birth date.

On the Admission date field, by pressing the down arrow key, a calendar is available for date selection:

 


 
Origin: The Origin field must also be filled with pre-defined values. The valid choices are Inborn and Transfer.  When you are mentioning a transfer, a new field becomes available to add Origin/departure information.
 
 

Discharged: 
When a patient is discharged, optional information entry is available:

 

To discharge a patient, click the discharged field.  A new set of fields allows you to input more detailed information like the discharge date and the disposition reasons.

Discharge date
When a patient is discharged, the date the discharge took place will automatically be entered here.  By pressing the down arrow key, a calendar is available for date selection.

Disposition
The Disposition field permits you to enter what happened to the patient at the time of discharge.

The disposition reasons:

 

If the origin value is Transfer, then the from field becomes available.



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