Department Membership

In Vocera, department membership determines the following features:

In general, departments provide the greatest benefit when you:

If you do need to create nested departments, Vocera determines department membership as follows:

For example, suppose Pediatrics is a department group that contains the Pediatric Nurses group, and suppose Maddie Hall is an immediate member of Pediatric Nurses.

Make sure you consider any unintentional side-effects if you create nested department groups.