Countersigning an assessment

Depending on your permissions, you can:

  • View responses in an assessment done by another clinician

  • Edit the responses in the assessment if needed

  • Countersign an assessment

For example, a student nurse completes an assessment. A registered nurse can view the responses the student nurse gave, edit the responses if needed, and then countersign the assessment.

Countersigning an assessment on a mobile

For patients attending UEC Urgent and Emergency Care. In Nervecentre, this covers 'ED areas' and SDEC., or patients who are admitted, you can view if they have due or overdue assessments from your patient list.

  1. View your patient list.

    • On iOS, select Patients.

    • On Android, select > Patients.

  2. View a list of options.

    • On iOS, select Show.

    • On Android, select and hold a patient's name.

  1. Select Sign Off Assessments.

    If a patient has an assessment that needs to be signed off, the number of assessments that need signing off is shown in a purple box next to the patient's name.

  1. Find the patient's record.

  2. Select Assmnts.

  3. Select the name of the assessment that needs signing off.

    A purple box appears next to the assessments that need signing off.

    To search for an assessment, select and enter the name of an assessment.

  4. Sign off or edit the assessment.

    • To submit the assessment, select Sign Off, review the information, then select Sign Off.

    • To edit the responses in the assessment, select Edit Assessment, change responses as needed, then submit the assessment.

      The assessment chart shows a row for contributors.

      Read more about the assessment chart

Countersigning an assessment on a desktop

  1. Open the patient's record.

    • From  Inpatients, select Patient List > double-click on a patient's name > Patient Detail.

    • From  Outpatients, select Clinic List > double-click on a patient's name > Patient Detail.

  2. From Clinical, find Assessments.

  3. Select next to the name of the assessment.

  4. Select Sign Off to view the summary of the assessment.

  5. Sign off or edit the assessment.

    • To sign off the assessment, select Sign Off.

    • To edit the responses in the assessment, select Edit Assessment Response.

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