Nervecentre V8.1 Help for Users

Overview of Inpatients

 Inpatients includes all aspects of clinical care for patients admitted to the hospital, or attending UEC.

Home	Your home dashboard. You can customise your home dashboard to show your choice of information. Your home dashboard is available across Nervecentre. Read about setting up your home dashboard
Patient List	View patient list dashboards. See an overview of Patient List
Patient Detail	View and edit demographic and clinical information about a patient. See an overview of Patient Detail
All Tasks	View information related to all tasks that have been raised, closed, or scheduled for your partition. See an overview of All Tasks
All Investigations	Find patients’ investigations using a ward list or a patient list. See an overview of All Investigations
EWS Charts	View observations for all patients on a patient list. See an overview of EWS Charts
Expects	View a dashboard of information about patients expected at your hospital. See an overview of Expects
Discharged	View a dashboard of information about discharged patients. See an overview of Discharged
Search	View information about your own work, for example, a list of tasks you completed. See an overview of Search
(No list selected) ▼	Select to choose a patient list. Read more about viewing and managing patient lists
	Select to copy information to the clipboard. Read more about the clipboard

Patient List

From  Inpatients > Patient List, you can view patient list dashboards.

Patient list dashboards have two components:

A patient list

This determines which patients appear.
A clinical note profile

This determines what information is shown for each patient.

This example shows the patient list 'ED All Adults', and the clinical note profile 'ED Dashboard'.

	You can choose what information is shown on a patient list dashboard. Select  to view all information. Select  to view a summary of information. Select  to search for a patient. Read more about searching for a patient
	Shows the patient list. You can scroll up and down to view more patients, and scroll left and right to view more information about the patients. Select a column heading to sort the patient list by that heading. Double-click a patient's name to view their patient record. Read more about finding a patient's record You can update some clinical notes from the clinic list. Double-click a column containing a clinical note to update the clinical note. For example, double-click in the column 'Algy' to update the clinical note 'Allergies'. Read more about updating a clinical note Depending on your organisation, you can filter information in patient list dashboards. Read more about filtering information
	Shows the name of the patient list and the number of patients in the list.
	Select a clinical note profile from Profile. The clinical note profile changes the columns and information shown. Read more about viewing a clinical note profile
	Select to choose a patient list to view. When you mouseover the name of the current patient list, the name of the previous patient list you viewed shows below. Select the name of the previous patient list to view the list again.
	Select to print the patient list. Read more about printing clinical notes

Patient Detail

From  Inpatients > Patient Detail, you can view, record, and edit patients' demographic and clinical details.

Patient Detail is the main inpatient area for managing clinical care. This section provides an overview of the common parts of Patient Detail. When you select Patient Detail you arrive in Clinical.

	Move between patients on the same patient list.
	Information about the patient, including their hospital and NHS numbers, their demographic information, and any patient tags. Mouseover  to see the patient's address. Select ▼ to search for a patient.
	Information about the patient's current visit, including their location, time in hospital, and specialty. If the patient is an inpatient, Ward / Bed is shown. Ward / Bed shows the ward and bed the patient is in. If the patient is an ED patient, Area / Locn is shown. Area / Locn shows the area and location the patient is in. Admitted shows the date the patient was admitted and the time since admission. For inpatients, the time since admission is shown in hours, then after 24 hours has passed, the days since admission is shown. For ED patients, the time since admission is shown in hours, then after 24 hours has passed, '>24 hours' is shown. Consultant / Specialty shows the name of the consultant and the consultant’s specialty. Select ▼ to transfer a patient. Read more about viewing information about the patient's current visit Read more about transferring a patient
	Navigate between the clinical areas of Patient Detail. Select  to see more areas.

All Tasks

From  Inpatients > All Tasks you can view all open, closed, and scheduled tasks for a specific patient list.

Choose search criteria to filter the list.

Category	Select a category to filter the list.
Priority (1-5)	Enter a priority from 1 to 5 to filter the list. Tasks have a priority that shows the importance of the task. Task priorities are from 1 (green) to 5 (red), where the highest is 5 and red.
Location	Select a location to filter the list.
Assigned To	Select a user to filter the list.
Patient	Enter a patient's name or a patient's identifier number to filter the list.

Select what tasks you would like to view in the list. You can view open, closed, or scheduled tasks in the list.



Select to print the list of tasks.

Shows all open, closed, or scheduled tasks.

Select a table heading to sort tasks by that heading.

All Investigations

From  Inpatients > All Investigations you can search for and view information about investigations for your patient list, or other patients who meet your search criteria.

Read more about viewing investigations

Patients	The current patient list. Select a patient to view investigations.
Search	Search for investigations by criteria.
	Select to view orders.
R	Select to view results.
	Select to view results on graphs.
	Select to view sample that need to be collected.
	Select options to filter the information shown.
	Type to search in all columns.
	Select a time period to show.
	Information about the selected patient.
	Orders and results appear here. Select column headings to filter the list.
	Export the current results to an .xlsx file.

EWS Charts

From  Inpatients > EWS Charts you can view and print observations for patients on a patient list.

	Your patient list. Select a name to open the chart. Select EWS to order the list by 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. increasing or decreasing.
	Details of the observations recorded, including: Patient demographics The recorder Who received escalations Information about changes to the observation model
	The observation chart.
	Select the arrows to view observations over a different time period.
	Select to show different views of the observation charts: Select  to show trends in observations on graphs, with each observation shown sequentially. Scroll to view observations at the foot of the chart. Select  to show trends in observations on graphs, with all graphs on one page. Select to show the chart in a grid view. The grid view is the default view.
	Select to show specific observations in isolation, for example, mental health, or All to see all observations entered in one chart.
	Select to print observations. You can print in either colour or black and white (B&W). You print the view that you have open on the desktop.

Expects

From  Inpatients > Expects, you can view a dashboard of information about patients expected at your hospital.

The information you see depends on the clinical note profile selected.

Select search criteria.

Profile

Select a clinical note profile.

The columns you see on the dashboard depend on the clinical note profile.

Patients returned by your search.

Select  to view details about a patient's preadmission. You can edit the preadmission, cancel the preadmission, admit the patient, and record if the patient Did Not Attend (DNA Did Not Attend.).

Discharged

From  Inpatients > Discharged, you can view a dashboard of information about discharged patients.

The information you see depends on the clinical note profile selected.

	Select search criteria.
	Select to search.
	Select to clear your search criteria.
	Select to save your current search criteria. You can choose a default search, use previously saved searches, and share your saved searches.
Profile	Select a clinical note profile. The columns you see on the dashboard depend on the clinical note profile.
	Patients returned by your search.

From  Inpatients > Search you can view information about your own work, for example, a list of tasks you completed.

	Select the type of information you want to see. You can choose: Patients you've seen Shows patients where your name was entered in a clinical note of type 'user'. Completed tasks you raised Tasks or assessments you completed Observations you submitted or approved Pharmacy actions you've taken Medicines you ordered
	Enter a date range to search. Optional: enter times to search in the format hh:mm.
	Optional: select  and enter a patient's name.
	Choose how many results you want to see.
Search	Select to search.
	Export the current results to an .xlsx file.

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