Assessments

Practitioners can either complete a patient's assessment with them or print and provide a blank assessment to the patient for them to complete and return.

About this task

Complete the required assessment in the Assessment iconAssessments panel from the Consult iconConsult panel.

Procedure

To complete an assessment:
  1. From the PatientPatient Search or Patient Queue iconPatient Queue, select a patient and click Consult buttonConsult.
  2. In the Consult panel, click Assessments.
    Tip:
    If you can't see this option in the Consult toolbar, click more iconMore.
  3. The Assessments panel is displayed with a list of assessments relevant to the patient's gender and age.
    Assssments panel
  4. Click the required assessment to initiate it. For example, Nutrition Assessment .
    Nutrition Assessments example
    In the Medications Review assessment, review all medications for the patient and perform the following actions if required:
    • To edit a medication's direction, route and duration, click Edit medicationEdit.
      Note:
      To reset the changes, click Undo.
    • To delete a medication, click Delete iconDelete. Any medications removed from the Medications Review assessment are ceased.
  5. If required, view the past assessment scores, print a blank assessment and so on. For more information, see Assessments Actions.
  6. Click Save or to save and print a completed assessment to hand to the patient, click Save & print.

Results

The completed assessment is added to the Actions section of the Consult iconConsult panel.Actions section of Consult panel

What to do next

In the Other actions section:
  • To view a completed assessment, select it.
  • To print an assessment, click Print iconPrint.
  • To reprint a completed assessment that has already been printed, click Reprint iconReprint.
  • To delete an assessment, click Delete iconDelete.