Using the clipboard

The clipboard feature allows you to copy items from one place to another, and to send items in a message. Items include observations, clinical notes, assessments, lab results, and medications. Items remain on the clipboard until you paste them, send them in a message, or leave Patient Detail.

You can use the clipboard in various places within the patient’s record, including:

• Case notes

• Investigations

• EPMA

  Read about using the clipboard to create a self-administration chart

To paste from the clipboard into a form, the form must contain a citation clinical note. Nervecentre automatically prevents you pasting items into the wrong places.

You can find the clipboard at the top-right of the page.

The clipboard is only available to use when you are in Patient Detail. When the clipboard is unavailable, it appears grey.

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. Select .

3. Select items marked with .

   • If the item you want to copy is underneath the clipboard, select and hold the blue bar at the top of the clipboard and drag it across the page

   • Items you select are copied to the clipboard

   • The clipboard button displays  to show there are items on the clipboard

4. Select  to remove an item from the clipboard, or select  to remove all items from the clipboard.

5. Select  or  to close the clipboard.

   Your copied items remain on the clipboard until you paste them, send them in a message, or leave Patient Detail.

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. Select .

3. Add items to the clipboard.

   Read about adding items to the clipboard

4. Select items in the clipboard that you want to send.

5. Select .

   A dialogue box appears containing a message you can edit.

   By default, the message contains a table of any information you selected from the clipboard.

6. From To, enter and select the recipients of the message.

   To search for a recipient, select +.

7. Optional: from Cc, enter and select recipients to receive a copy of the message.

   To search for a recipient, select +.

   You might send a recipient a copy of the message if you want them to be informed about something, but you don't need a direct response.

8. Enter a subject for the message.

9. Optional: edit the message.

   You can format the text in the message by selecting options from the bar above the message.

10. Send, save, or delete the message.

    • To send the message, select Send.

    • To save the message as a draft, select Save as Draft.

    • To discard the message, select Delete.

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. Select .

3. Add items to the clipboard.

   Read about adding items to the clipboard

4. Select items in the clipboard that you want to send.

5. Select .

   A dialogue box appears containing an update you can edit.

   By default, the update contains the patient's name, age, date of birth, and hospital number. It also contains a table of any information you selected from the clipboard.

6. Optional: edit the update.

7. Select Send.