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Nursing care

NextHealth Care

Included in Care Hospitals

Paper charts make deterioration easy to miss until it is obvious. NextHealth Care calculates an early warning score from each set of observations and ranks patients by risk on the ward dashboard, alongside doses due and overdue observations. Risk assessments, intake and output, and care plans live in one nursing record linked to the medical record, and the SBAR handover is drafted from the chart, so nurses review and sign rather than rewrite it each shift.

What it covers

  • Nursing assessment, care plan and shift notes
  • Observation charts with early warning scoring and escalation
  • Risk assessments: falls, pressure ulcer, VTE, nutrition
  • Intake and output, wound care, catheter and line records
  • Handover between shifts with structured content
Why it is hard to do well

An early warning score must reach someone, not sit unread

Nursing documentation that spots deterioration early

At three in the morning a patient's breathing rate rises and oxygen saturation falls. The nurse records the observations, the early warning score moves into the medium band and the patient rises to the top of the ward dashboard. The nurse in charge sees it at once and calls the doctor, instead of the change being found at the morning round.

Routine tasks are quicker: observations go into a single form, the score is calculated for you, fluid balance totals update with each entry and the vitals trend is charted automatically. Risk assessments for falls, pressure injury, VTE and nutrition sit in the same record.

At the end of a shift, the SBAR handover is drafted from the chart, so the outgoing nurse reviews and signs in minutes rather than writing from memory, and the incoming nurse starts with a clear picture of every patient on the ward. New ward staff find their way around quickly, because everything sits in one chart.

How nursing documentation works in NextHealth Care

Nursing documentation software holds the nursing record for each inpatient. In NextHealth Care, it sits alongside the medical record for the same admission, so nurses and doctors always work from the same chart.

  1. Record observations. Vitals are entered in one form, and an early warning score based on the NEWS2 approach is calculated with its risk band.
  2. Prioritise the ward. The ward dashboard ranks patients by score and shows doses due and overdue observations.
  3. Assess and plan. Falls, pressure injury, VTE and nutrition risk assessments sit beside care plans with goals, interventions and target dates.
  4. Track fluid balance. Intake and output entries build 24 hour totals and the balance between them.
  5. Hand over. An SBAR handover is drafted from the chart and reviewed and signed by the outgoing nurse.

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Questions we get asked

Nursing care is included in Care Hospitals.

Yes. A score based on the NEWS2 approach is calculated from each set of observations and shown with a low, medium or high risk band on the chart and the ward dashboard.

The ward dashboard ranks patients by their latest score and shows who has medication due and whose observations are overdue, so attention goes where it is needed first.

Handover is drafted from the chart automatically in SBAR form, so for most patients it becomes a quick review and signature rather than a written summary.

Falls, pressure injury, venous thromboembolism and nutrition, recorded in the same nursing record as observations and care plans.

Yes. Intake and output are recorded by type and volume, and the chart shows 24 hour totals and the balance, highlighting a negative balance.

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