Status Board

Number 6 on your main menu.

The Status Board opens on the location where you work.

There are 6 columns in the Status board:
Column 1
Column 2
Column 3
Column 4
Column 5
Column 6

The first 3 columns are pinned which means they are fixed and do not move.

Click on the tabs/ links on the right hand side to go to the relevant screen.

If you are a bank nurse, the status board will open blank with no patients on it as you are not attached to any specific location. In this instance, you click on Location and enter the location where you are.


           

The first column

In the first column, you have the room and bed number. When the Status Board opens, they will be in ascending order. If you click on the Room tab, a small arrow appears, and if you click again you can have the rooms in descending order.

     

 

The 2nd column

In the 2nd column, there's the Patient's name, unit number and account number. Patients with similar names or same surnames will be highlighted in yellow as shown in image above.                   

If you double click on any patient's name, you get a snapshot of their details with all sections expanded. The Expand/Collapse all button will open/close all sections. Alternatively, you can expand/collapse each individual section by clicking on the +/- sign next to each section.



 

Click Close or press F11 to exit.

The 3rd column

In the 3rd column, you can view any new result: If the patient has new result ready it will flag up here. If there are multiple results it will appear as Res, if the result is singular it will appear from which ever module the results are generating from i.e. Lab or Mic. Furthermore, the system distinguishes the results by background colour with green/grey used to indicate normal results , yellow for abnormal , and red for critically abnormal .

If you click any result indicator, you will be taken to PCI to view it.

Once the result has been viewed, the indicator disappears, but only for that user.

It wouldn't disappear from other users' log in until they view the new result themselves.

The result indicator stays on the Status Board for 24 hours before it disappears even if the result has not been viewed.

The 4th column

In this column, you find the admitting consultant name and any other physicians looking after the patient.
If you click on any of the consultants' names, another window will open with his/her details.

Click Close or press F11 to exit.

Patients can be grouped by consultant: Click in the consultant's tab, a small arrow will appear there and patients will be grouped by consultants in alphabetical order from A-Z. If you click again, patients will be grouped by consultants from Z-A.

To see the rest of the columns, click on the green/grey arrow on the bottom right hand corner.

The 5th column

This column shows the Patient's admission date, status, sex, age and date of birth.

The 6th column

This column shows the admission diagnosis and the actual procedure, only if the latter has been entered properly on the administrative data screen.

 

The small arrow indicates further information.

 

By clicking on it, this information displays in a separate window.

 

Integrated desktop

It contains the buttons on the right hand side of the status Board.

Each one of the buttons, once clicked, will direct the user to the relevant documentation screen which will be discussed in the coming chapters.

 

Location

To view any location, click on Location, enter the location name you want to view (e.g.WN4), press return.

Find Patient

To find a patient, click Find Patient button, enter first few letters of the patient's surname and lookup, select the patient from the list, then return. The patient will display on the Status Board.

 

 

Manage List

This button allows users to allocate patients to themselves or to other nurses.

 

The first section of the screen is the User Field. This field is used to populate the User Table below it. Once a user opens the screen his/her name will default in the User Table.
To find a user, a lookup by name can be performed. Once a user is selected, the name will appear in the User Table below the User Field.

 

By clicking on a user's name in the table, you can highlight or un-highlight it. In addition, there is a Select all Field located in the header of the table, by clicking on the check mark, all users in the table are either highlighted or un-highlighted.

 

The Clear button will clear the User table from all users.

The Second field on the screen is the Patient Field. It allows for the addition of individual patients to the Patient Table underneath the field. When patients are added from this field, their names are highlighted within the table.

The Clear button will clear the Patient Table from all patients.

 

There are four buttons beneath the Patient Table: Location, Assign, Unassign and File.

The Location button will allow for a lookup of the available locations. The patients from the rooms and beds will be added to the Patient Table. Multiple locations can be chosen. The location button will be available once a user has been added to the User Table.

The Assign button assigns all highlighted patients and rooms and beds to the highlighted user/s.
Once a patient has been assigned to a user, the user's initials appear in the Assigned Field in the User Table. The initials of the assigned user are colour coded to represent three different actions: Black is used when a user is currently being assigned to a patient before filing the screen, Gray is used to identify users who have been assigned to the patient and Red is used for users who have been unassigned from the patient.

The Unassign button will remove highlighted patients, rooms and beds from a user's list once the screen has been filed. The user's initials colour in the Assigned Field will change from gray to red.

The File button will file all assigned and unassigned edits to the user's list. If edits are not filed once they have been assigned/unassigned, they will not be saved to the user's list.

Additional Functionality

A magnifying glass icon in the User Table allows users to invoke a pop-up screen containing a list of patients currently assigned to a user. This list can be then copied to the Patient Table and these patients assigned to other users.

Additionally, a copy icon in the user table allows users to copy this list to the Patient Table without first invoking the pop-up screen.

My list

If patients have been allocated to a user, once this user clicks My List button, the Status Board displays only the patients allocated to the user. It only displays rooms which are occupied. If you are allocated empty rooms, these will appear when the patients are admitted.