About Alarms

Vocera Vina supports the ability to send and receive alarms, which enables you to respond to urgent or important situations immediately. Alarms can be related to patients assigned to you, or can be unrelated to a specific patient.

Here is some of the functionality that alarms provide:

• Alarms are indicated using notifications.

  This ensures that you are made aware that you have received an alarm even if you are not actively using Vocera Vina at the time that the alarm arrives.

• Alarms are displayed uniquely based on priority.

  Alarms can be of normal, high, or urgent priority, and are color-coded to indicate this priority.

  See Conversation Priority for details on the order in which alarms and conversations are displayed on your screen.

• Receive automatic invitations to join alarms.

  When you receive an alarm, you can choose to accept the alarm and join a conversation with others who have also accepted the alarm and anyone who has been invited to join. You can also choose to decline the alarm, or you can view the details of the alarm before deciding to accept or decline it.

• Common alarms can be created using a template.

  If your facility has standard alarm types that it generates regularly, you can define templates that enable you to generate these alarms quickly. Templates can be configured to specify the patient or location that is related to the alarm.

Alarms that expect a response within a specified time will expire after this time is reached.