Which rooms need waiting rooms, how to know?

[Hal9000]

Hello, I know that if there is a patient reserved for the room, the bed symbol slot is occupied by his portrait. But do these rooms need waiting rooms or such rooms are only for hospitalized patients, which means they will be always transported there by a nurse. This symbol is not at rooms like general offices which need a waiting room. Is it a rule?

Specifically I'd like to know if a waiting room is needed for a diagnostic unit and a special procedures unit at the Internal Medicine dpt. I am rebuilding the initial hospital in Campaign 2 and it seems there was a WR for a diagnostic unit but not a one for Spec. Proc. unit. But this hospital was a mess so who knows... How could I find which room needs it?

Thanks a lot for your advice. :)

[vonMoo]

Only rooms that clinic patients use need a waiting room: doctor's offices, radiology like X-ray, labs.

Rooms that only take hospitalized patients never need a waiting room, so diagnostic units, special procedures units and ORs don't need a waiting room. Hospitalised patients wait in wards or HDUs and get taken to other rooms by a nurse when the room is ready for them.

Cardiography and sonography rooms in departments like general surgery or internal medicine work like radiology rooms, so clinic and hospital patients use them.


BTW, it's usually best to have only one waiting room for each department, and to put all of that department's clinic rooms nearby. This is because patients won't necessarily go to the best waiting room if you have more than one.

For example, if you have 2 emergency offices in different parts of the building, and you give each office a waiting room nearby, there's no way to link each office with the closest waiting room. So a patient might go to waiting room 1 and get called to office 2.

Of course, if you do this, the waiting rooms have to be quite large.

[Hal9000]

Thanks a lot for your thorough answer. Yes the question was basically how to determine if the room takes only hospitalized or clinic patients or both before I can see it in work later. But I guess hospitalized only rooms could be with that bed symbol in manager mode.

Yes, I learned the hard way long ago that you should group rooms and waiting rooms close together to avoid travels across the entire hospital :) I also noticed in this play that I should put more than one calling button and screen in one WR because even if there is somebody going to it from far away, it is blocked for everyone else and they just sit down without using it.

Thanks again :)