Calling or Broadcasting from Staff Assignment

While using Staff Assignment, you can initiate a call or broadcast to a bed group or to staff members on the Assignments tab. The call can be made from a Vocera badge (or any Vocera device) or a desk phone. By calling directly from Staff Assignment, you can connect quickly to other users without interacting with the Vocera Genie, which is useful in high noise environments. In addition, this feature allows a unit secretary, who may not have a Vocera device, to interact with mobile staff members.

To call or broadcast from Staff Assignment, you must be logged in as a Vocera user. You cannot call or broadcast from Staff Assignment if you logged in as "Administrator".

To Use a Desk Phone Instead of a Vocera Device for Console Calls:

  1. On the Assignments tab, check the Use phone for console calls box.
  2. In the Ext. field, type a desk extension. You do not need to type the full 10-digit number.
    By default, the Ext. field is populated with the Desk Phone or Extension field value from your Vocera user profile. However, you can change it to another desk extension or even an outside number.