Your administrator may have created templates for you to use. These templates enable you to send emergency information quickly.
The following types of templates may be available to you:
Mass Notifications: these are user-generated alerts that are sent globally or to a group. This template type can be used for emergencies, such as a lockdown. You can specify the level of urgency of the mass notification.
Staff Events: this is another type of user-generated alert that can be sent globally or to a group, but is typically used for non-urgent communication. It can have most of its fields pre-populated to make it easier to communicate with a large number of people.
Patient Events: this is a patient-specific template that can be used to communicate important information about a change in a patient's status, such as a request for transport for patient discharge. You do not need to type the patient details or location to use this type of template.
Location Events: this is a template that is related to a specific location. This is useful, for example, if you want a room to be cleaned for use by a new patient: you can send a pre-populated user-generated alert to environmental services, specifying the room number.
To create a user-generated alert using a template:
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Do one of the following:
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In the Home screen, tap the Template icon at the bottom of the screen if it has been made available to you.
A list of available templates appears.
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In the Home screen, tap the Chat icon at the bottom of the screen.
Tap Templates in the ribbon at the top of the screen. A list of available templates appears.
Mass Notifications templates and Staff Events templates appear if your administrator has made them available to you.
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To create a user-generated alert using a template and link it to a patient,
tap Patient or Patients to display the list of patients assigned
to you. Tap the patient that you want to associate with the template,
and tap Templates in the ribbon at the top of the
screen.
Note: If your administrator has not granted you permission to view patient data, a list of patient locations appears instead of a list of patients.To search for a department, patient, or location not shown here, type at least two characters of the department name, the patient's first or last name, or the location name. A list of matches is displayed, with departments listed first, then patients, then locations.
Note: A location is returned as a search result only if there is no patient there.In the list of departments, tap a department to display the list of patients in that department. Then, tap the patient or location that you want to use as the context.
Patient Events and Location Events templates related to the patient or location context that you have selected appear if your administrator has made them available to you.
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Some templates require you to specify the recipients of the user-generated alert generated from the template:
If Select A Group is listed in the TO: field for the template, select the group that is to receive the user-generated alert generated from this template.
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If the template requires you to select the recipient of the user-generated alert generated from the template, a screen appears that displays your favorites and your department if it has been configured to appear.
From this screen, you can:
- Tap a person's name to specify this person as the recipient.
- Type text in the Search field to display all people and groups whose name contains the text.
- Tap a group name to display the members of the group, and then tap a member to specify this person as a recipient.
When the members of a group are displayed, tap the group header to specify that the entire group is the recipient.
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If the template includes fields to be filled in (for example, the time and location of
a staff meeting), in the screen that appears, fill in the fields
or edit the existing text in the fields to complete the template.
