Hospital departure and return¶
When a resident leaves for hospital, several things must happen at once: stop the medicines, cancel the care, tell billing, give the hospital what it needs. WideCare does it in one step.
1. Record the departure¶
On the resident’s form, click Hospital departure — or New → Hospital departure or return on the care dashboard.
Check the Date and time.
Pick the Hospital (required).
Write the Reason: why the resident leaves — the hospital will ask.
Read what will happen:
the running prescriptions suspended;
the planned care tasks cancelled;
a hospital absence opened for billing, when billing is installed;
the liaison pack printed on confirmation.
Click Confirm.
For a day-centre user, the sheet also asks where they left from (The day centre or Home).
2. While the resident is in hospital¶
The resident counts as In hospital on the care dashboard’s presence strip.
The care tasks of those days are cancelled, with a note saying the resident is in hospital.
Return from hospital becomes the first button on the resident’s form.
3. Record the return¶
Click Return from hospital.
Check the Date and time and the hospital.
Read what will happen:
the prescriptions resumed;
today’s care planned again;
the hospital absence closed;
the record put up for review.
Click Confirm.
The record is reviewed after a return
A return from hospital creates a record review: the team re-reads the record — treatments may have changed. It shows in the next multidisciplinary meeting.
The liaison pack¶
The liaison pack gathers what the hospital needs: treatments, allergies, advance directives, and the wishes for a hospitalisation (preferred and refused hospitals, room type, complementary insurance). It prints when you confirm the departure, with Print Liaison Pack, or from the Documents tab of the resident’s form.
The absences¶
Nursing Care → Residents → Absences lists the residents’ absences, hospitalisations included.