Group Permission and the Charge Role

Almost every healthcare unit has a “charge” role. This is a nurse responsible as a lead for a shift. The changing membership shift by shift makes it a dynamic group. For ease of database administration, allow an entire group within the department to add/remove themselves from their particular “charge nurse” group. Assign the group of nurses needing to add/remove from the charge group as the “group of users permitted to add themselves to this group” under the permissions tab for the charge group. By making this permission somewhat broad (by allowing the entire nurse group to add/remove themselves even though there may only be a subset of nurses that will fill this role), administration is simplified as nurses take on this role at varying times.

For example, all I C U Nurses can add/remove themselves from the “I C U Charge Nurse group.”