Managing clinical finding notifications

When providers, such a nurses, enter a new manual result and set the status of the result as Staff To Call, the item appears as a clinical finding notification on your WorkDesk. This lists patients whom you need to phone to notify of test results.

Steps

1.

On your WorkDesk, in the Clinical Queues area, click <#> clinical findings notifications (where # = the number of clinical findings). The Manual Results window opens.

2.

Perform one of the following actions:

If you have called the patient and notified them of the results: Document your call in the Patient Instructions and Callback field (for example, enter “Called patient”.

If you have not yet called the patient to notify them of the results: Click Call Patient. The EMR opens a new message window where you can send yourself a message as a reminder to call the patient with the result.

3.

When you are done, click Close Form .