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Labels
Labels, under Stock in the menu on Start.
Drug labels, patient labels and dispensing labels, laid out at their printed size and printed straight from the browser. For a sheet, choose which labels on the sheet to use so a part-used sheet is not wasted. Label sheet lists the sheets by their layout, including the ward's 40-a-sheet patient label (46 by 25 mm, 9 mm in from the left, 3 mm down), so its measurements never need typing; the browser remembers the sheet you last chose, so it is already selected next time. Custom is there for any other sheet.
A sheet prints at its true size only if the browser is told to leave it alone, so the page says what to set before you print: paper A4, Scale 100% and Margins None. Left on Default, the browser shrinks the sheet a little to fit what it can print and the labels land slightly off their places.
A patient's record and their admission both link straight here, already open on that patient. From the admission the link is Wristband and labels; from the patient's record it is Labels, at the top of Consent.
A patient label carries the hospital number this organisation knows the patient by. Where the patient has never been given one here, printing a label gives them one then and there, formed the way this organisation forms them, and it goes on the patient's log so the record says where the number came from. Printing again reuses it rather than making another, and a patient already numbered here is untouched.
Wristbands are a tab of their own. Find a patient who is in and it makes a band label with their name, date of birth and hospital number, and a square to scan; stick it to a blank wristband. Pointing a phone at the square opens a bedside page for that patient alone, asking you to sign in first if you are not already: who they are, the ward record so far, and a box for what has just happened. It goes nowhere else, by design, and lasts two hours before you scan again. The square is tied to that admission, so a band from an earlier one opens nothing.