Set Up the Dialysis Chairs and Machines

Before the renal unit can treat anyone, Veona needs to know what it can treat them on. A chair (also called a station) is one dialysis bay and its machine — the unit’s physical capacity. You register each chair once; from then on every session is scheduled and run against a real chair, and the unit can see at a glance which bays are free, busy, or down for maintenance.

Who / when: Halima Sani, the dialysis nurse, sets the unit up on day one and adds or retires a chair whenever the unit’s equipment changes. (The nephrologist can do this too — both hold the scheduling key.)

We will follow Halima as she stands up a three-bay unit.

1. Dialysis Nurse — open Dialysis → Chairs & Machines. The first time, the list is empty.
2. Dialysis Nurse — press “Add Chair”. Give the chair a short Code (for example HD-01), a human Name (for example Bay 1), and the Machine Model if you have it (for example Fresenius 4008S). Save.
3. Dialysis Nurse — repeat for each bay. The code must be unique within the unit — Veona refuses a duplicate so two bays can never share an identity.
4. Dialysis Nurse — once a chair exists you can set its status from the row: Available, Occupied, Maintenance or Closed. Available chairs are the ones the schedule offers when booking a session.

Tip

Name the machine model now. It rides along on the chair and saves the nurse from looking it up later when a machine needs servicing.

Note

A chair is the unit’s physical capacity, not a calendar. You give a chair its slot when you schedule a session onto it — see the next guides.

What happens next

With the chairs registered, the unit has real capacity to schedule against. When a patient is enrolled and prescribed dialysis, the nurse can put their sessions on a specific bay and the board shows the unit filling up across the day.

Follow the trail

• Next: Receive a Renal Referral From the Chart
• Related: Enrol a Patient and Write the Dialysis Prescription · Schedule a Patient’s Recurring Sessions