Patient Status At A Glance (PSAAG)

PSAAG Patient Status At A Glance. A view of information relating to patients within a specific ward or area. provides a view of information relating to patients within a specific ward or area. You can use PSAAG to replace traditional whiteboards on wards. PSAAG is intended to be used by all clinical staff as a real time repository of patient locations within a ward or area. Nervecentre updates all read-only information displayed from patients' records. You can add and remove bed tags from PSAAG.

View PSAAG on a desktop only, from  Bed Management > Bed Status.

PSAAG on a mobile

You can't do this on a mobile.

PSAAG on a desktop

  1. From  Bed Management > Bed Status, select Bed Status.

  2. Select the ward you want to view.

When you view a ward, you see a bar of ward information, and patient information displayed by bed space.

Overview of ward information

Beds

  • Total number of beds

  • Number of empty beds

  • Number of closed beds

  • Total patients in this location

  • Number of patients admitted, but not allocated a bed

Discharge

Select an option to filter patient information.

Acuity

The number of patients in this area with clinical note 'Acuity Acuity is the patient's health status, and is used to determine the correct level of care and staffing needed. Higher acuity patients need more care. Nervecentre doesn't calculate acuity. Clinicians set the acuity score in a clinical note.' set to each acuity level.

Obs

The number of patients with observations due, overdue, and with a high EWS Early Warning Score. A vital signs recording and scoring system used with adult patients. The scoring system is designed to identify and alert appropriate staff in the case of deteriorating patients.. Patients with a high EWS are RAG rated red or amber.
Overview of patient information

Select to drag the room or bay to a different position.

The name of the room or bay.

A bed. Each occupied bed shows:

  • The names of the bed, patient, and consultant

  • The specialty

  • Information about the patient's care

  • Any patient and/or bed tags

Each unoccupied bed shows:

  • Whether the bed is empty or closed

  • Any bed tags

Information about the patient's care. You can choose what to display. Select items from the information bar at the top of the PSAAG view, or, select from the bottom right corner of the page, and select up to three items.

  • Items in blue are of least concern, or not due

  • Items in green are due

  • Items in amber might be of concern

  • Items in red are of most concern or overdue

Patient tags and bed tags.

Read more about patient tags

Read more about bed tags

You can view patient information, but you can't update patient information.

  1. From  Bed Management, select Bed Status.

  2. Select the ward you want to view.

  3. To display summaries of information on the main page, from the bottom-right corner, select , and select up to three items.

  4. To view more information about the patient, select anywhere inside an occupied bed.

Reserved, unoccupied beds display RESERVED across the bed space.

Reserved, occupied beds display .

  • To view details of the bed reservation, select the bed space, then select Bed.

When you select a 'closed' bed tag, the bed space shows grey. The bed also appears as closed from Manage Beds.

  1. From  Bed Management, select Bed Status.

  2. Select the ward you want to view.

  3. Find the bed you want to tag and select anywhere inside the bed.

  4. Select Bed.

  5. From Tags, select or clear tags.

Depending on your organisation and permissions, you can lock and unlock PSAAG. For example, if you have a screen showing PSAAG in an area shared with patients, you might want it to be locked most of the time.

When PSAAG is locked, you can't see information about a specific patient, for example, the patient's EWS Early Warning Score. A vital signs recording and scoring system used with adult patients. The scoring system is designed to identify and alert appropriate staff in the case of deteriorating patients., or if they have an observations due. Also, depending on your organisation, PSAAG might show pseudonyms for patients when locked or unlocked.

To unlock PSAAG:

  1. From  Bed Management > Bed Status, select a ward.

  2. From the bottom right, select .

  3. Enter your username and password.

    If a message appears saying you can't unlock the screen, contact your organisation's system administrator.

  4. Select Unlock.

    PSAAG is now unlocked.

  5. To lock PSAAG, from the bottom right, select .