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Inpatient Nursing Workbench
The Nursing Workbench is a dedicated interface for nursing staff. It provides a ward-centric view — showing all rooms and BHTs assigned to the current department — and quick access to the most common nursing tasks without navigating the full inpatient menu.
Page: Inpatient → Nursing WorkBench (also accessible from the Admission Profile Dashboard header button)
XHTML: /nurse/index.xhtml
Controller: NursingWorkBenchController
Privilege: NursingWorkBench
Template: Uses template_without_menu.xhtml — the full application menu is hidden, keeping the interface clean for ward terminals.
The workbench is divided by a PrimeFaces Splitter:
A compact patient browser for the current department, with two tabs:
- Rooms tab — lists all occupied rooms by room number (amber buttons). Click a room to load that patient in the right panel.
- BHT tab — lists all active BHTs by BHT number (blue buttons). Click a BHT to load that patient.
The department name is shown at the top. If no department is set in the session, a red "No Department" warning is shown.
When a patient is selected, the panel shows two rows of command panels:
Row 1:
- Edit — Edit Admission, Room Change, Guardian Room Change
- Clinical Data — Patient History, Clinical Notes, Ward Medications, Medicine Timeline, Discharge Medications, Investigations, Images, Diagnosis Card, Clinical Discharge, Nursing Discharge, Physical Discharge
- Room Management — Room Details, Add New Room, Add Guardian Room, Initiate Transfer, Accept Patients
- Service — Add Services & Investigations, Add Outside Charges, Add Professional Fees, Add Estimated Professional Fee, Add Timed Services
- Surgeries — Add Surgeries, Manage Surgeries
Row 2:
- Pharmaceuticals & Consumables — Pharmacy BHT Request, Receive Medicines from Pharmacy, Return Medicines to Pharmacy, Issue Discharge Medicines, Direct Issue to BHTs, Direct Issue to Theatre Cases, BHT Issue Requests, View Pharmacy Requests, Search IP Direct Issues by Bill, Search IP Direct Issues by Item, Search IP Direct Issue Returns by Bill, Search IP Direct Issue Returns by Item
- Reports — Pharmacy Issue Summary (Entity), Pharmacy Issue Summary (DTO - Fast), Lab Bill Summary
Two things to know about the Pharmaceuticals & Consumables panel:
- Receive Medicines from Pharmacy here shows all pending receipts for your department, not just the currently selected patient (unlike the same button on the Admission Profile, which pre-filters to the selected admission). Return Medicines to Pharmacy stays disabled until you select a patient.
- Search IP Direct Issue Returns by Item currently opens a page that does not exist and will not load — use Search IP Direct Issue Returns by Bill instead, which is the only working return-search page (see Search Inpatient Direct Issue Returns).
Click any room or BHT button in the left panel. The controller calls NursingWorkBenchController.selectAdmission(admissionId), which loads the selected admission into admissionController.current. The right panel updates via AJAX — no full page reload.
- Inpatient Dashboard — navigate to the full Admission Profile for the currently selected patient
- Back to Home — return to the main application home screen
Several buttons are visible only when the logged-in user holds the corresponding privilege:
| Button | Privilege Required |
|---|---|
| Medicine Timeline | InpatientClinicalAssessment |
| Clinical Discharge | InpatientClinicalDischarge |
| Nursing Discharge | InwardNursingDischarge |
| Physical Discharge | InwardPhysicalDischarge |
| Room Details | InwardRoomRoomOccupency |
| Add New Room | InwardRoomRoomChange |
| Add Guardian Room | InwardRoomGurdianRoomChange |
| Initiate Transfer | InwardRoomTransferInitiate |
| Accept Patients | InwardRoomPatientAccept |
| Pharmacy BHT Request | InwardPharmacyIssueRequest |
| Receive Medicines from Pharmacy | InwardPharmacyBhtReceive |
| Return Medicines to Pharmacy | InwardPharmacyReturnSubmit |
| Issue Discharge Medicines | PharmacyDischargeMedicineIssue |
| Direct Issue to BHTs | PharmacySale |
| Direct Issue to Theatre Cases | PharmacySale |
| BHT Issue Requests | PharmacyBHTIssueAccept |
| View Pharmacy Requests | InwardPharmacyIssueRequestSearch |
| Search IP Direct Issues | PharmacySale |
| Search IP Direct Issue Returns | PharmacySale |
The Nursing Workbench functionality is under active development. Issue #19301 tracks the workbench roadmap. Issue #21528 added the missing command buttons from the Inpatient Dashboard in June 2026.
- Inpatient Admission Profile (Dashboard) — full patient dashboard
- Inpatient — Nursing Discharge — nursing discharge workflow, accessible from this workbench
- Inpatient EHR — Ward Medications — accessible from the workbench
- Inward Ward Return to Pharmacy — Return Medicines to Pharmacy, in detail
- Direct Issue Return to Pharmacy — returning items from a direct issue bill
- Search Inpatient Direct Issue By Bill / Search Inpatient Direct Issue Returns — the search pages linked from this panel
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Admin — Inpatient Privileges and Access —
NursingWorkBenchprivilege