Principal medical documentation of the admission department

· Logbook of patients admission and refusal for hospitalization

· Medical card (history) of a hospital patient (which is traditionally called patient's history). Nurse fills in the front page, personal information and the left half of the "Statistics card of a discharged patient"

· Emergency notification of sanitary-epidemiological service

· Telephone calls logbook

· List of admitted patients in alphabetical order (needed for inquiry service)

Sanitary-hygienic processing of patients

Sanitary-hygienic processing is done in sanitary inspection room of the admission department. There are one- and two-phase methods of the processing.

· In small hospitals one-flow system is used, i.e. men and women are examined in turns.

· Large hospitals can provide two-flow system which allows to examine at the same time men and women in separate rooms.

Stages of sanitary-hygienic patient processing

· Skin and hair coat inspection

· Cutting off hair, nails, shaving (if necessary)

· Showering or hygienic bath