Care configuration

The care configuration lives under Nursing Care → Configuration. The same catalogues are also reachable from Care Tasks → Configuration.

Settings

Nursing Care → Configuration → Settings:

Block

Setting

Falls

How the head nurses are told of a fall to read: by an activity only, or also by email

Prescriptions

See Prescriptions and medicines

Clinical Records

Body location entry: on a body drawing or in a list

Care Tasks

Assign care tasks automatically — see Automatic assignment of care tasks

Care catalogues

Under Nursing Care → Configuration → Care Catalogues.

Care types

The families of care: Vital Signs, Wound Care, Medication, Hygiene, Elimination, Mobility/Transfer, Nutrition, Doctor Visit, Specialist Visit, Therapy, Examination, Other. Each has a code, a default department, a default duration, an observation type, a colour, and Done by — the care roles who may do it.

Care activities

The care themselves, as the plan offers them: a name, a care type, a department, a criticality, a duration and the Default Description the carer will read. Done by on an activity wins over its care type.

Periods of the day

The moments a care is given: Morning (07:00), Noon (12:00), Afternoon (14:00), Evening (17:00), Night (22:00) by default. Set Starts At; the end is the start of the next period.

Care tags, outcome reasons, body zones

  • Care Tags — a name and a colour, to sort the care.

  • Care Outcome Reasons — the reasons for a care not done or postponed; each says what it is Used For and whether it Requires a Comment. See Care tasks.

  • Body Zones — the zones of the body drawing; they can be renamed or hidden, not created.

Clinical catalogues

Under Nursing Care → Configuration → Clinical Catalogues: the pathologies (ICD-10), the dosages, the allergens and the memory of prescription reading. See Prescriptions and medicines and The resident’s medical record.

Observation types

Nursing Care → Configuration → Observation Types: drag the types into the order in which the meeting reads them, and tick Critical for those that bring a resident up in the next meeting. Falls and incidents are always critical.

Care plan templates

Nursing Care → Configuration → Care Plan Templates (head nurses and managers). A template holds:

  • its name and the Dependency Category it is written for;

  • Written for: any stay, a stay overnight or a day-care stay;

  • Builds on: another template it completes;

  • What this template assumes, shown before applying it;

  • the Objectives and the Cares it adds to a plan.

WideCare comes with sample templates — falls, undernutrition, pressure sores, cognitive disorders, end of life, life project — to adapt. Applying a template is described under Care plans.

Recurring meetings and life project methods

Going further