Raising tasks

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You can raise tasks.

You can raise clinical tasks, for example, H@N Hospital at Night. A multidisciplinary team of doctors and nurses working collaboratively to manage patient tasks in the out of hours periods. tasks. Depending on your organisation, you can raise non-clinical tasks, for example, cleaning or portering tasks.

Raising tasks on a mobile

On a mobile, you can raise tasks from a patient's record, or your task list.

  1. From your patient list, select a patient.

  2. Scroll to Tasks, and select Open.

  3. Select .

  4. Select a partition, for example, H@N Hospital at Night. A multidisciplinary team of doctors and nurses working collaboratively to manage patient tasks in the out of hours periods..

    On iOS, you can search for a partition.

  5. Select a task category.

    On iOS, you can search for a task category.

  6. Complete all mandatory fields.

    Mandatory fields are marked .

  7. Select Create Task.

  8. Optional: repeat steps 5 to 7 to raise multiple tasks.

  9. When you have finished raising tasks, return to the patient's record.

    • On iOS, select until you return to the patient's record.

    • On Android, select your mobile's back button until you return to the patient's record.

  1. View your task list.

    • On iOS, select Tasks.

    • On Android, select > Tasks.

  2. Select .

  3. Select a partition, for example, H@N Hospital at Night. A multidisciplinary team of doctors and nurses working collaboratively to manage patient tasks in the out of hours periods..

    On iOS, you can search for a partition.

  4. Select a task category.

    On iOS, you can search for a task category.

  5. Search for a patient.

    You can search inpatients or all patients.

  6. Select a patient from the list of returned patients.

  7. Complete all mandatory fields.

    Mandatory fields are marked .

  8. Select Create Task.

  9. Optional: repeat steps 4 to 9 to raise multiple tasks.

  10. When you have finished raising tasks, return to the patient's record.

    • On iOS, select until you return to the patient's record.

    • On Android, select your mobile's back button until you return to the patient's record.

Raising tasks on a desktop

On a desktop, you can raise tasks from a ward form, or a patient's record.

  • From a patient's record, you can raise clinical tasks.

  • From a ward form, you can raise clinical tasks and non-clinical tasks.

You can also schedule tasks for later.

You can raise and submit tasks from a ward form.

If a task has a red priority:

  • Task coordinators can raise and submit the task.

  • Users who are not task coordinators can raise the task, but not submit it. Users must speak to a task coordinator to submit the task. The task coordinator has their own form to complete.

To raise a task from a ward form:

  1. Find and open your ward form.

    The location of your ward form depends on your organisation.

  2. Complete all mandatory fields.

    Mandatory fields are marked .

  3. Select Submit to submit the task, or select Clear to cancel the task.

You can raise clinical tasks from a patient's record.

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

  2. Find Tasks.

    By default, Tasks shows all tasks.

  3. Select .

  4. Select a partition, for example, H@N Hospital at Night. A multidisciplinary team of doctors and nurses working collaboratively to manage patient tasks in the out of hours periods..

  5. From Choose Task Category, select a task category.

  6. Complete all mandatory fields.

    Mandatory fields are marked .

  7. Select an option.

    • To cancel the task, select Close.

    • To raise the task, select Add.

      After raising a task, Task Created is shown in a yellow bar.

  8. Optional: raise more tasks by repeating steps 5 to 7.

  9. Select Close to return to Clinical.

On a desktop, you can schedule a task to be sent at a later date and time. You might do this if there is a time critical event, for example, repeating a troponin blood test after a patient has had a potential heart attack.

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

  2. Find Tasks.

    By default, Tasks shows all tasks.

  3. Select .

  4. Select a partition, for example, H@N Hospital at Night. A multidisciplinary team of doctors and nurses working collaboratively to manage patient tasks in the out of hours periods..

  5. From Choose Task Category, select a task category.

  6. Complete all mandatory fields.

    Mandatory fields are marked .

  7. Select Schedule for later.

  8. Select an option.

    • To cancel the task, select Close.

    • To raise the task, select Add.

      After raising a task, Task Created is shown in a yellow bar.

  9. Optional: raise more tasks by repeating steps 5 to 8.

  10. Select Close to return to Clinical.

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