Multidisciplinary meetings¶
The multidisciplinary meeting brings the team together to re-read the residents’ situation and adjust their care plans. WideCare prepares the agenda, shows each resident’s situation on one page, and writes the minutes.
Find the meetings¶
Nursing Care → Care → Plans and Meetings → Multidisciplinary Meetings — the meetings, as a list or a calendar.
Nursing Care → Care → Plans and Meetings → Reviews in Meeting — each resident’s re-evaluation (filters To do, Done, Carried over).
Nursing Care → Reports → Record Reviews — the record reviews.
Nursing Care → Reports → Plan Reviews — the care plan reviews.
Nursing Care → Configuration → Recurring Meetings — the recurring meetings.
Meeting filters: Upcoming, In Progress, Done, My Meetings.
The life of a meeting¶
State |
Next step |
|---|---|
Draft |
Plan announces it on the care dashboard; Start opens it if it takes place now |
Planned |
On the day, Start opens each resident’s re-evaluation |
In Progress |
Open each resident, record the re-evaluation, then Close the meeting |
Done |
Print the minutes |
Cancelled |
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A blue note at the top of the meeting always says the next step.
1. Prepare the agenda¶
Click New, give the title, the date and time, the duration, the location, the organizer and the attendees.
In the Residents tab:
Add residents picks them by unit;
Load pending residents adds those waiting (see the FAQ).
Each resident gets a card: age, sex, dependency, room, sector, when they were last discussed, and a badge Discuss first, To discuss or Recently discussed. The × takes a resident off the agenda.
The Agenda tab holds the points to discuss besides the residents.
A resident without a care plan shows Create the care plan; a draft plan, Activate the care plan.
2. Re-evaluate each resident¶
Click a resident’s card. The re-evaluation opens, with:
the Care plan (and its status) and the care already put on the plan;
Where things stand — a checklist of the resident’s follow-up: scales, weighing, registers, objectives, each with its status (Up to date, Due soon, Attention, Overdue, Never done), a New badge for what changed since the last meeting, and the period read;
Observations of the period, the most important first;
Objectives — the plan’s objectives, to adjust;
Decisions — what was decided for this resident;
Record reviews — the reviews of the record still open.
Act from the checklist¶
Each checklist line carries its button: New Braden, New MNA, New MMSE, New Tinetti, Weigh, Register a fall, Fall risk (Morse), Open a wound register, Open a continence register, New restraint, Lift the restraint, New objective…
A request becomes a task to plan
A scale or a record asked during the meeting is not filled in there: it becomes a care task for the resident, described as asked by the meeting. The checklist line then shows who asked for it and when, and the minutes note it as requested. The care staff fill it in from the task. See Care tasks.
Decide and record¶
Write the Decisions.
Add to the care plan turns a decision into a care on the plan; press it again for the next decision.
Record the re-evaluation (meeting in progress) closes it: the care plan review is written down. Refresh reloads the checklist.
Carry over leaves the resident for the next meeting.
The resident’s card on the meeting then shows Plan review due, Plan adjusted, To do or Carried over. The Re-evaluated smart button counts the residents done.
3. Close and print¶
Close the meeting when every resident is handled. The Minutes tab holds the Decisions by resident and the notes; Print the minutes gives the PDF.
Record reviews¶
A record review asks the team to re-read a resident’s record. It is created:
Periodic, on the house’s rhythm;
Requested by a carer;
After a fall;
After a return from hospital.
Each review is To do, Reviewed or Not needed (with a required conclusion). Mark reviewed and Not needed close it; Open what triggered it shows the fall or the return. The meeting’s Record reviews tab lists those of the resident; the ones still open when the re-evaluation is recorded are closed with its decisions. Filters: To do, Overdue, Reviewed.
Plan reviews¶
Each care plan review — validated after revision, confirmed without change, or recorded in a meeting — is written down. Nursing Care → Reports → Plan Reviews lists them, with the filters Confirmed without change, Adapted and In a meeting. See Care plans.
Recurring meetings¶
Nursing Care → Configuration → Recurring Meetings (head nurses and management) plans meetings on a fixed rhythm:
Weekday, Time, Duration and Location;
Planned Ahead — how many days before, the next meeting is created;
the organizer and the attendees, and who mandated the meeting;
the Meeting Title and the Standing Agenda;
Also on the Agenda and Add the Residents Waiting — what each meeting loads by itself.
Plan the next meeting creates it at once; Meetings lists those already planned.