Unit beds, rooms, and halls

Unit beds, rooms, and halls describe the specific locations of patients within a unit. Generally, data related to these resources are provided to WFM in Clinical Bridge messages. However, these resources can be manually edited in WFM as required.

A unit bed defines the bed location of a specific patient.

Each unit maintains a proximity order of beds. The proximity order assists the patient assignment process by organizing beds according to their physical location.

Bed proximity is used to maintain an acceptable bed assignment so that assigned nurses are as close to patient beds as possible. The main goal of this is to maintain patient safety and provide the best quality care to patients.

When Clinical Science is implemented, beds are graded to alert the staff member making assignments if a potentially unsafe pairing of beds is made.

Unit rooms are the location of the patient beds on a unit. Each unit bed must be associated with a specific room, so unit rooms must be created in the system before unit beds can be added.

Unit halls represent specific halls within a unit or are a way to separate or group beds on a unit. Similar to rooms, these can represent physical spaces or logical groupings of rooms.