Caregiver assistance system

A software application embodied in a non-transitory computer readable medium and adapted, when executed by a processor of a computing device, to cause the computing device to perform the following:

• receive status conditions from a patient support apparatus, the status conditions including a current state of a plurality of components of the patient support apparatus;
• receive weight data indicating when a weight of a patient assigned to the patient support apparatus was last measured using the patient support apparatus;
• and
• instruct a display device to display a specific indicator based on the status conditions and a weight icon based on the weight data.

A software application embodied in a non-transitory computer readable medium and adapted, when executed by a processor of a computing device, to cause the computing device to perform the following:

• receive status conditions from a patient support apparatus, the status conditions including a current state of a plurality of components of the patient support apparatus;
• receive undesired condition definitions from a user interface that are based on at least one of the following:
• a current location of the patient support apparatus, a department to which the patient support apparatus is assigned, or a patient support apparatus type;
• use the undesired condition definitions and the status conditions to determine if an undesired condition currently exists for the patient support apparatus;
• if an undesired condition currently exists for the patient support apparatus, instruct a display device to display information indicative of the undesired condition;
• and
• if an undesired condition does not currently exist for the patient support apparatus, not instruct the display device to display information indicative of the undesired condition.