On Careful, you can either discharge a patient from the hospital (e.g. the patient is discharged home with follow-up) or discharge the patient from your team care (e.g. the patient is taken over by another speciality or home without follow-up):
To discharge a patient from hospital, you need to update the patient’s status using the following steps:
- First, navigate to the team from which you would like to discharge a patient.
- Then click on the patient whom you wish to discharge.
- On their patient profile, click on the pencil symbol next to ‘STATUS’
- Update their status to ‘Discharged.’ You also have the option to put in the date of discharge here.
To discharge a patient from your team’s care:
- First, navigate to the team from which you would like to discharge a patient.
- Then click on the patient whom you wish to discharge.
- Navigate to the action menu in the top right of the patient profile.
- Click on ‘Discharge from team’
- Confirm which team you are discharging them from using the dialogue box.
