Inpatient Nursing Handover Takeover

Inpatient — Nursing Handover / Takeover

Status: Under development (GitHub issue #21654). This article is a stub and will be expanded once the feature is released.

The Nursing Handover / Takeover workflow lets nursing staff formally hand over and take over duty for a ward, floor, or unit. When a nurse accepts duty, the system presents a single-screen summary of all patients and outstanding tasks; when a nurse leaves duty, the time is recorded and a handover note is captured for the incoming nurse to acknowledge.

What it does

• Accept duty / Leave duty — records the nurse's identity and the date/time of each duty change (a duty-change log per ward)
• Single-screen ward summary at duty start — all active patients in the ward/floor/unit and all outstanding tasks (pending medications to dispense, orders to collect, procedures due)
• Handover note — the outgoing nurse records a handover summary; the incoming nurse acknowledges it (takeover)
• Audit trail — all duty changes and handovers are logged per ward

Where it lives

The workflow extends the Nursing Workbench (/nurse/index.xhtml, NursingWorkBenchController, privilege NursingWorkBench), which already shows all rooms and BHTs of the current department on one screen. See the Nursing Workbench roadmap, issue #19301.

Related Articles

• Inpatient — Nursing Workbench
• Inpatient — Nursing Discharge
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