The Home Screen

Tap here to display the Menu screen. From this screen, you can view your availability status, view your profile picture, manage your favorites, patients, and groups, change your settings, view help, or log out.

See The Menu Screen for more details.

In Vocera Vina, conversations and alarms are organized into tabs.

These tabs can be one of the following:

• Non-Patient: Conversations that do not include patient information.

• Home: All conversations. By default, this is the middle tab. If any conversations contain unread or unacknowledged messages, or contain unacknowledged alarms, the total number of these conversations that need attention is displayed here.

  

• My Patients: Links to all patients that have been assigned to you.
• Patient Linked: Conversations that include patient information.
• Archive: Archived conversations.

Your site administrator may also have defined customized tabs for you.

Tap a tab name to display its contents, or swipe left or right to switch from one tab to another.

You can specify what tabs are to be displayed on the screen. See Customizing the Display Tabs for details.

Tap this icon to filter the conversations on this screen. See Filtering Conversations for more details.

If this icon is not visible, swipe down on your screen to display it.

On the Home screen, conversations containing unread messages or missed calls are in the New section. Other conversations are in the Read section. Tap a section header to expand or hide the section.

When a section is hidden, a count of the number of conversations in the section is displayed:

In the New section, the count is enclosed in a colored dot that indicates the highest unread alarm or conversation priority:

• Red: An urgent priority alarm is unread
• Orange: A high priority alarm is unread
• Yellow: A normal priority alarm is unread
• Blue: No alarms are unread, only conversations

In the Read section, the colored dot is always gray.

Your name, as specified in the server. If your administrator has included a personal title for you (such as MD or RN), this title is displayed after your name.

Tap a person's profile picture or initials or a group's initials to call this person or group. See Calling From a Profile Picture for details.

The presence icon at the top right of the profile picture or initials indicates availability:

See The Presence Indicator for more information on presence and availability.

For conversations with a patient context, an icon displaying a patient and bed is displayed:

Tap the icon to call a conversation participant.

Type in the search field to search for a specific recipient with which you are having a conversation.

If the search field is not visible, swipe down on your screen to display it.

Tap the presence and availability icon to indicate whether you are available or unavailable. See Setting Presence and Availability for more details.

Tap this icon to display the Vocera Genie. See Calling With the Genie for more information on the Genie.

Tap Edit to select conversations to mark as read or to leave. This can help you manage your list of conversations. See Marking Conversations as Read or Leaving or Completing Multiple Conversations for more details.

Tap a conversation to view or edit it. See Conversations for more information on conversations.

In each conversation, the time of the latest activity in this conversation is displayed at the top right.

You can press and hold a conversation to display checkboxes that enable you to select multiple conversations to mark as read or to leave and complete. See Marking Conversations as Read or Leaving or Completing Multiple Conversations for more details.

Tap the Call icon to place a call. This icon is not visible if calling is not supported in your environment. See Calling From the Home Screen for more details.

Tap the Chat icon to start a new conversation. See Starting a Conversation for more details.