Reserving beds and managing bed reservations

You can reserve beds, edit bed reservations, and cancel bed reservations from  Bed Management.

You can view bed reservations from  Bed Management > Bed Reservations.

Read more about Bed Reservations

Reserving beds and managing bed reservations on a mobile

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Reserving beds and managing bed reservations on a desktop

From Manage Beds, you can reserve a bed space for a patient with an open bed request. For example, you can reserve a bed for a patient in ED with an open bed request for Cardiology.

  1. Select  Bed Management > Manage Beds.

  2. From Patients waiting for beds, select the current location of the patient, then select the patient.

  3. From the summary of hospital capacity on the right, select the location of the bed you want to reserve.

    Select the hospital > directorate > ward > bed space.

  4. Select Reserve.

  5. Confirm the bed reservation.

  1. Select  Bed Management > Manage Beds.

  2. From the summary of hospital capacity on the right, find the ward location.

    Select the hospital > directorate > ward.

  3. From the ward, select All.

  4. Select the bed space with the reservation you want to cancel.

  5. Select Cancel Reservation.

  6. To reserve the bed space for a different patient, follow the steps for reserving a bed.

    Read about reserving a bed

From  Bed Management > Scheduled, you can view patients who have a bed reservation associated with their preadmission.

Ward

Select a ward to view bed reservations for that ward.

From Date

Select a date to view bed reservations after that date.

To Date

Select a date to view before reservations before that date.

A bed reservation. Mouseover the bed reservation to view more information.

  1. Open the patient's record.

  2. From Patient Detail > Patient admin > Show pathways, select TCI.

  3. From Pending Preadmissions, select the preadmission.

  4. Select Edit Bed Reservation.

  5. Choose the start time, end time, duration, and bed of the first bed reservation.

    1. From Bed Required From, enter a date and time the bed is reserved from.

    2. From Bed Required Until, enter a date and time the bed is reserved to.

      The duration automatically updates.

    3. Optional: from Duration, enter the duration of the bed reservation.

      The end date and time of the bed reservation automatically update.

    4. Select one of the yellow highlighted areas to choose a bed for the first bed reservation.

      The selected area is green.

  6. Optional: choose the start time, end time, duration, and bed of the second bed reservation.

    1. From Then From, enter a date and time the bed is reserved from.

    2. From Until, enter a date and time the bed is reserved to.

      The duration automatically updates.

    3. Optional: from Period 2 Duration, enter the duration of the bed reservation.

      The end date and time of the bed reservation automatically update.

    4. Select one of the yellow highlighted areas to choose a bed for the second bed reservation.

      The selected area is green.

  7. Select Save.

  1. Open the patient's record.

  2. From Patient Detail > Patient admin > Show pathways, select TCI.

  3. From Pending Preadmissions, select the preadmission.

  4. Select Edit Bed Reservation.

  5. Choose the start time, end time, duration, and bed of the first bed reservation.

    1. From Bed Required From, enter a date and time the bed is reserved from.

    2. From Bed Required Until, enter a date and time the bed is reserved to.

      The duration automatically updates.

    3. Optional: from Duration, enter the duration of the bed reservation.

      The end date and time of the bed reservation automatically update.

    4. Select one of the yellow highlighted areas to choose a bed for the first bed reservation.

      The selected area is green.

  6. Optional: choose the start time, end time, duration, and bed of the second bed reservation.

    1. From Then From, enter a date and time the bed is reserved from.

    2. From Until, enter a date and time the bed is reserved to.

      The duration automatically updates.

    3. Optional: from Period 2 Duration, enter the duration of the bed reservation.

      The end date and time of the bed reservation automatically update.

    4. Select one of the yellow highlighted areas to choose a bed for the second bed reservation.

      The selected area is green.

  7. Select Save.

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