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. To add an item to the clipboard, select .

   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 copy of the message to a recipient 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. To add an item to the clipboard, select .

   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. Choose who you want to send the update to.

   You can choose to send the update to any private or public chat room you are a member of. Or, if you are watching the patient, you can send the update to the patient's watch group. You can't send the update to a watch group for a different patient.

7. Optional: edit the update.

8. Select Send.