Care Roles

A care role (e.g., Primary Nurse) is a title given to an Vocera Edge Enterprise Manager user that describes the role of the user within the hospital and his/her relationship to a patient or org unit. Care roles in the Vocera Edge Enterprise Manager describe what responsibilities the user has in the Vocera Edge Enterprise Manager and the Vocera Edge Clinical Manager. A care role can be a physician, specialist (cardiologist), CNA, primary nurse, charge nurse, on-call cardiologist, phlebotomist, housekeeper, etc.

Any caregiver who works with patients must be assigned a care role. Care roles are assigned to patients or org units. For example, a care role (Primary Nurse) may be assigned to a patient. However, the Charge Nurse care role may be assigned to an entire floor (Org Unit).

Care roles are associated to Vocera Edge Enterprise Manager clinical profiles. One care role can have one or more associated clinical profile, which would provide that user with a different set of permissions yet only have one care role. For example, a House Supervisor may be associated with two clinical profiles: House Supervisor and Floor Supervisor.

The table below provides a list of sample care roles and corresponding assignments:

Care Role	Description	Assigned To
Charge Nurse	Charge Nurse for Unit	Organization Unit
Consulting Cardiologist	Cardiologist consulting for a specific patient visit	Patient
Pharmacist	Pharmacist for a location or set of locations	Organization Unit
Primary Nurse	Primary Nurse for a patient	Patient