General settings (residents, rooms)¶
This tab brings together the settings that structure the day-to-day running of your home: how residents are managed, accommodation (stay duration, capacity, managers), and the display of the care dashboard.
You will find them in the Settings application:
Settings > Nursing Home — residents, accommodation, demo data;
Settings > Medical — dashboard.
In Belgium
The Belgian pack adds an Approvals block to the Nursing Home tab (the establishment’s INAMI numbers, its MR/MRS approvals and their beds) and a SAM medicines block to the Medical tab. See Belgian settings.
Reserved for managers
These settings are only visible to users who hold the establishment manager role. They are set once and then rarely change afterwards.
Residents¶
Settings > Nursing Home > Residents. Two options frame the creation and follow-up of residents.
Setting |
What it does |
Recommended value |
|---|---|---|
Medical Information |
Makes medical information mandatory for all residents. |
Establishment-specific — enable it if the head nurse requires a complete medical file from admission onwards. |
Family Notifications |
Sends automatic notifications to the resident’s family. |
Establishment-specific — enable it if you communicate with families from Resthome. |
Accommodation¶
Settings > Nursing Home > Accommodation. This block sets the default values for rooms and stays, and designates who is notified when a resident arrives or changes room.
Setting |
What it does |
Recommended value |
|---|---|---|
Default Stay Duration |
Pre-fills the duration (in days) proposed when a new stay opens. |
30 days |
Room Capacity |
Number of beds pre-filled when creating a new room. |
1 bed (single room) |
Rooms Technical Manager |
User who receives the “prepare the room” activity when a resident arrives or during a room change / transfer. |
The technical or maintenance staff member of your home. |
Move-in Procedure Manager |
User who receives the move-in checklist (agreement, condition report, inventory, medication locker, laundry, disinfection) on the resident’s record. |
The admission coordinator — leave empty to disable the procedure. |
Two complementary managers
At every room change or transfer as well as at admission, Resthome opens a new stay and automatically triggers:
a “prepare the room” activity for the technical manager;
the move-in checklist (if a procedure manager is defined) on the resident’s record.
These are work reminders: setting them avoids oversights on arrival.
Dashboard¶
Settings > Medical > Dashboard. A single setting, which controls the display of the care dashboard’s stat cards.
Setting |
What it does |
Recommended value |
|---|---|---|
Hide Empty Stat Cards |
Hides the dashboard cards (missed care, attention points, dependency reassessments, etc.) whose counter is 0. |
Leave disabled (default): a displayed “0” is a positive signal, not a lack of information. |
Demo Data¶
Settings > Nursing Home > Demo Data. A way to fill a test database with fictitious residents, rooms, stays and invoices.
Setting |
What it does |
Recommended value |
|---|---|---|
Load Demo Data |
Creates fictitious residents, rooms, stays, billing periods, medical data and meals. |
Keep it for a test environment. |
Update Demo Data |
Re-runs the loader to add demo records added since (furniture, supplements, etc.) without duplicating existing ones. |
Testing only. |
Never on your real database
Demo data creates fictitious residents and invoices. Only use these buttons on a test or training database, never on your production environment.