Receive a Renal Referral From the Chart
A patient with failing kidneys is usually spotted somewhere else first — on a medical ward, in the clinic, in the emergency department. The clinician who spots it raises a referral from the patient’s chart to the renal service. Veona then does the hand-off for you: a renal referral lands as a dialysis enrolment on the unit’s worklist, marked as coming from the chart, so the nurse never re-types the patient in.
Who / when: the referring clinician raises the referral from the chart when they decide a patient needs renal care; the dialysis nurse, Halima Sani, finds the new enrolment already waiting on her Dialysis Patients register.
We will follow a patient referred from the medical ward to Dr. Okonkwo’s renal service.
- Referring clinician — from the patient’s chart, raise a referral to the renal service. Set the specialty to a renal term — Veona recognises Renal, Nephrology, Dialysis or Renal Medicine (it matches case-insensitively). The reason you write becomes the working diagnosis on the renal side.
- Veona — because the specialty maps to the dialysis module, Veona auto-mints a dialysis enrolment linked back to that chart referral. It starts the patient on the most common profile — Chronic (ESRD) on HD (haemodialysis) — for the nephrologist to refine.
- Dialysis Nurse — open Dialysis → Dialysis Patients. The new patient is already there, with a Chart badge in the Source column so you can tell it came in by referral rather than being enrolled at the desk.
- Nephrologist — Dr. Okonkwo opens the patient’s Renal Record by clicking the row, confirms the care type and modality, and writes the prescription (see the next guide).
What happens next
Section titled “What happens next”The patient is on the renal register with their referral reason as the starting diagnosis. The nephrologist refines the enrolment and writes the prescription; from there the unit schedules and runs sessions exactly as for a patient enrolled directly.