In this tutorial, you will learn how to manage the locations of your patients.
What is a Location?
Knowing where your animal is currently being held and the locations it has been held while in your care is one of the most important things about a patient record.
Adding a New Location
Step 1
Visit https://www.wrmd.org/signin and log into your account using the username and password that you registered with.
Step 2
Go to the patient’s record and the Locations panel on the upper right-hand side of the patient record.
Step 3
Click on Save New Location.
Step 4
A new screen will pop up. Fill out the appropriate fields.
- Date: Choose the appropriate date from the dropdown calendar.
- Holding at: This describes the general location where your animal is being held. WRMD provides four options to choose from in a dropdown menu.
- Clinic: at your hospital
- Off-site: at another location, not at your hospital
- Homecare: at your home or a volunteer’s at home. When you choose this option, the text fields change to caregiver and address, prompting you to either type into the field, or choose from a pre-set dropdown menu that pulls from your list of volunteers that you already have in your system.
- Resident: an animal resident at your center
- Area/Room: This describes the area or room within your designated general location (i.e.: ICU, outside, aviary complex, etc.). Fill out the text field with the names of your specific areas within your clinic.
- Enclosure: This describes a specific enclosure within the designated area/room (i.e.: ICU 5, Aviary 1, etc.). Fill out the text field with the names of your specific areas. WRMD remembers these for later reference and includes them in a dropdown list.
- Comments: Any comments about the location.
To set up dropdown menus for the textbox fields, review the Setting up Your Locations tutorial and Managing your People & Privacy Settings (note: changing these settings requires SuperAdmin status).
Step 5
Click the green Add Location button. You will return to the patient record screen and the new location will be listed in the panel.
Viewing Location History
Step 1
Click on the history button in the location panel.
Step 2
A new screen will pop up, allowing you to see all previous locations of the animal.
Step 3
Close the window by clicking the X in the upper right-hand corner.
Updating a Patient’s Location
When the patient is ready for a new location, all you need to do is follow the same steps listed above under Adding a New Location. WRMD will remember the previous location and keep you informed, so you will always have a reference.