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A training EHR built for clinical judgment

BedsideLab gives every case a full patient chart, laid out like a hospital EHR, and puts the clinical judgment items right beside it, so students practise the review, the reasoning and the decision together.

  • Full patient charts
  • Scored automatically
  • Nothing to install
BedsideLab EHR · Handoff report
The BedsideLab training EHR: the patient storyboard beside the handoff report
Training EHR

Everything a nurse reviews, in one chart

Each case opens its own patient chart. Students review it the way a nurse does at the start of a shift, then decide what to do.

Storyboard

4 parts

Who the patient is, always in view.

  • Name, age and MRN
  • Allergies and code status
  • Alerts and isolation
  • Latest vital signs

Handoff and notes

3 parts

Where every shift begins.

  • Handoff report
  • Listen button
  • Provider and nursing notes

Assessment and vitals

4 parts

The cues that change by the hour.

  • Nursing assessment flowsheets
  • Vital sign trends
  • Abnormal values flagged
  • Intake and output

Results and imaging

4 parts

The evidence behind the plan.

  • Laboratory results
  • Scales
  • Imaging
  • Documents

Medications and orders

3 parts

What the patient receives, and why.

  • Medication administration record
  • Orders
  • Home medications

History

3 parts

The person behind the problem list.

  • Problems
  • Medical, surgical, family and social history
  • Contacts

Activity

3 parts

The case's items, beside the chart.

  • Case scenario
  • Clinical judgment items
  • Answers save as students work

Clinical reference

4 parts

One click away in every chart.

  • Clinical judgment model
  • Priority frameworks
  • SBAR and therapeutic communication
  • Reference ranges and handy rules
For students

Practise the decisions nurses make every shift

Students sort competing needs by urgency and make simple to complex clinical judgments about a patient who feels real.

Start with the handoff

Read the off-going nurse's report, or listen to it, then review the chart for the cues that matter.

Answers that save themselves

Each answer is saved as students work, so they can continue on any computer, in class or at home.

Feedback when it helps

Scores, correct answers and rationales appear once the work is graded, or straight away in practice mode.

A Word activity for every case

A recognize-cues worksheet, every item with space for reasoning, and a reflection to upload.

A clinician showing information on a tablet to a patient
For faculty

Run the whole clinical judgment course from one place

Assign cases, see every answer beside the key, and grade the open responses with model answers.

Assignments

Choose cases, then a class, a section or teams, and set a due date and points.

Class codes

Share a class code and students create their own accounts, or add and import them yourself.

Scored for you

Objective items are scored when students save; see every answer beside the key and rationale, with a suggested score.

Practice mode

Let students see their score, the answers and the rationales as soon as they save.

Activity builder

Write items of all eight types with keys and rationales; Check items validates them before you save.

Patient chart editor

Edit or duplicate any chart, or start a new one from a template that shows every section.

Realistic by design

Patients who feel real, and decisions that matter

Fictional, but never generic. Every chart is multi-faceted and holistic, so the right priority has to be found in it.

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Patients across the lifespan

From a 3-day-old newborn to an 86-year-old, with diverse names, languages, religions and family situations.

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Settings

Inpatient units, the emergency department, a pediatric ICU and outpatient care, each with its own chart and handoff.

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Items with rationales

Each tagged with the clinical judgment step it practises, with a rationale or model answer for every one.

Next Generation item types

Eight item types, scored the NCLEX way

Multiple choice, select all that apply, prioritize, matrix, drop-down, highlight, bow-tie and open responses. Select-all and highlight items use +/- scoring; open responses are graded by faculty with model answers.

  • Each item tagged with its clinical judgment step
  • Partial credit where the NCLEX gives it
  • Keys and rationales hidden until grading
Case 5 · Drop-down · Take action
Complete the nurse's reasoning about thiamine.

Mark's IV fluid contains [ dextrose     ▾ ].
In a person with chronic alcohol use,
glucose increases the body's use of thiamine
and can precipitate [ Wernicke encephalopathy ▾ ].

✓ 1 point per correct blank

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