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Nurses manage inpatient stays in NduMed: admitting a patient to an available bed, moving them between beds, and discharging them. Each admission is linked to an inpatient (IPD) encounter, and bed days are charged automatically.
Admitting, transferring and discharging need the ward management permission, which Nurses have by default. Your hospital must use the Wards module.

Admit a patient

1

Start from the patient or the encounter

Select Admit on the patient record or on the encounter screen.
2

Choose a bed

Bed lists only available beds.
3

Clinic and reason

Clinic comes from the encounter if you started from one; otherwise choose it. Enter the Reason for admission.
4

Select Admit

The bed becomes occupied. NduMed creates an inpatient (IPD) encounter, or uses the one you started from, for notes, vitals and orders during the stay.
A patient who is already admitted cannot be admitted again. If someone else took the bed a moment before you, choose another bed.

Current admissions

Open Admissions. Filter by Current, Discharged or All, and by ward. Each row has Transfer, Discharge and Summary actions.

Transfer to another bed

Select Transfer, choose the new bed in Move to bed (available beds only), and confirm. The patient’s bed history records the move.

Discharge

Select Discharge and choose the Discharge type:
  • Routine
  • Against medical advice
  • Transferred out
  • Referred
  • Deceased
Discharging frees the bed, posts any remaining bed-day charges and closes the inpatient encounter.
Discharge also requires permission to update encounters. Nurses and doctors have it; if you cannot discharge, ask your administrator to check your role.

Discharge summary

After discharge, select Summary for a printable discharge summary including the Bed history.

Bed-day charges

Every night, NduMed charges each admitted patient one bed day for each completed day at the bed’s daily rate. If the bed has no rate set, the charge shows as Needs pricing and must be priced before the invoice can be generated. Administrators set rates in Wards and beds.