Description

Main screen for patient management in an emergency room. The user will be able to perform several functions such as: configure the reason for the visit, print report of the orders sent to the patient, view the history of the patients that were removed from the Arrivals section, add documents, create reports of the patient management in the emergency room, view report of the pending and completed clinical tasks. It has two main areas: Arrivals and Workflow Items (these tabs are configured in the Settings / Office / Workflow Label Settings screen).

Access

Through Main Menu

• In the main menu, press the Workflow button. 

Through Appointments 

• Go to the Appointments screen. 
• Press the More button located at the top of the screen and select the Workflow option.

Sections

Buttons (Arrivals Section) 

• Subject Settings: When pressed, it allows you to configure the reasons for the patient's visit, upon arrival at the emergency room. 

• Print Orders Sheet: When pressed, it displays the report of the orders to be performed, as clinical tasks of the selected patient. 
• Dismissals History: Displays the patient history, which was removed from the Arrivals section.

• Documents: When pressed, it allows you to register documents to the selected patient. 

• Reports: Displays the report screen, related to patients, who have already been discharged from the emergency room.  
  
• Viewer: Displays the Workflow Viewer screen to show the arrival and location of waiting patients in the emergency room.

• Active Tasks: It displays the report of clinical tasks pending for all patients. It is used in most cases by nurses, mainly when there is a change of shift in the emergency room. 

• Completed Tasks: Displays the report of completed clinical tasks for all patients. It is used, in most cases, by nurses, mainly when shift change occurs in the emergency room. (This report will only be displayed when the Mark as Completed button is pressed in the Clinical Tasks section of the progress note). 
• Previous: Closes screen. 

Tabs

• Arrivals: Main section, where patients are registered, in order of arrival. In the same way, patients are displayed, who are noted, through self-registration, upon arrival at the emergency room. 

En esta sección, se puede realizar lo siguiente:

• Control the flow of patients arriving at a diagnostic and treatment center. 
• Allows to add patients in order of arrival (both existing and new patients).\Allows to create the record, to those new patients.
• Allows to edit/remove patients from the list.
• Allows to assign the patient to a specific room and provider under a category.

Important Note: The Workflow screen and the Appointments screen work together, therefore, patients registered in Appointments, as they arrived, will appear in the Workflow screen. 

Botones

• Add Arrival: When pressed, it allows you to register the arriving patient. The list of patients will be organized in the order of arrival to the emergency room. 

• Edit Arrival: When pressed, it allows you to edit the selected patient's information, either by date of birth, telephone number, reason for the visit and if necessary, the person accompanying the patient. 

• Assign Patient: When pressed, it allows you to assign the selected patient to an evaluation room, select the provider by which he/she will be attended, register the category, if not previously configured, so that it comes out as default and write a note. When a patient is assigned to the evaluation room of the center or emergency room, it will automatically go to the Workflow Items section.

• If the patient has any open progress notes, the following message will be displayed:

• Otherwise, the following screen will appear:
  

• Remove Patient: When pressed, the selected patient can be removed from the list. 

• Automatically, the following confirmation message will be displayed: 

Columns
The following columns are configured in the Settings / Office / Workflow Label Settings screen.

• Date: Displays the date and time when the patient was registered in the emergency room or center.
• Patient Name: Displays the name of the patient, who arrived at the center or emergency room. 
• Reason for coming: Displays the name of the patient, who arrived at the center or emergency room. 
• Companion: Display the patient's companion's name.

  
  

• Tabla: Section where the patients that are being registered in the system will be displayed. By double clicking on the selected patient, the Add Workflow screen will be displayed, to locate the patient in the corresponding evaluation room, assign the provider who will attend the patient, register the priority category of the visit and register a note related to the visit. 

•  View / Edit Notes: Section to write any type of note.

• Discharge Patient: When pressed, it will indicate that the patient has been discharged from the emergency room. A confirmation message will be displayed automatically: 

•  Add New Location: When pressed, it allows patients to change evaluation room or location in the emergency room. 

• More Options: Through this button, you can access different screens. Among them:

• Discharge Patient: When pressed, it will indicate that the patient has been discharged from the center or emergency room. Automatically, the confirmation message will be displayed: 

• Change Room Location: When pressed, it allows patients to change evaluation room or location in the emergency room.  
• View Clinical Tasks: When pressed, the Tasks screen will automatically be displayed so that the nurse can complete the clinical tasks assigned to the selected patient. 

• Discharge Patient With Disposition: Pressing indicates that the patient was discharged from the emergency room with some disposition. A Template must be selected, in order to justify the inactivity of that patient.

• Room Histoy: By pressing , you can view the patient's movement history for the evaluation rooms.

• Past Encounters: When pressed, the patient's last five progress notes will be displayed.

• Clinical Task History: When pressed, displays the patient's clinical task history screen.
  

• Has Pending Tasks: Indicates that the patient has pending clinical tasks.
  
• Discharge Patients: It indicates that the patients were discharged. 
• Restore Layout (Link): When pressed, it allows you to restore the original screen layout. 
• Save Layout (Link): When pressed, it allows to save the user's desired design.

• Go to Patient Details: When selected, it will display the patient demographic screen. 

• Signatures: When selected, it will display the screen of the users' signatures, which they documented in the progress note. 

• View Orders: When selected, the screen of orders, prescriptions, referrals, educations and labs that have been sent to the patient will be displayed. 

• View Order Summary: When selected, the clinical summary of the patient encounter will be displayed.