Care Plan Statuses

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Create a Care Plan

Before you begin Make sure that the existing care plans for the patient are in Completed status. From the navigation, click Care Plan. The Care Plan template appears. Care Plan template Click Create a New Care Plan. All the panels gets activated. Activated panels on the Care Plan template Select a status, and an intent. The default values are Active, and Plan respectively. Add a health concern. Add goals to address health concern. Add interventions to achieve the goals. Record functional and cognitive assessments. Click Save and Close. Note: To edit a completed care plan, you must update the status of the current plan to Entered-in-Error, which removes the current care plan's data and redirects you to the previous care plan. Care Plan Statuses You can view or update the status of a care plan from the Status field of the Care Plan template. Parent topic: Patient Care Plans

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Update a Health Concern

From the navigation bar, click Care Plan. The Care Plan template appears. Expand the Add/Edit Health Concerns panel. From the bottom-right grid, select a health concern. The information for the health concern appears in the corresponding fields. Do one or more of the following: Modify the clinical status Modify the verification status Note: If you select the Entered-in-error verification status, the associated goals, interventions, and outcomes will be removed. Add or update comments To indicate that the health concern is resolved, select the Resolved clinical status and then enter the resolved date. Click Update. Parent topic: Manage Health Concerns

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Add a Health Concern Using the Other Category

From the navigation bar, click Care Plan. The Care Plan template appears. Expand the Add/Edit Health Concerns panel. From the Select Category grid, select Other. Manually enter the health concern or use Common Phrases. Select a category. To modify clinical or verification statuses, click in the corresponding fields and then select a status. The default clinical and verification statuses are Active and Confirmed respectively. Note: If you select the Entered-in-error verification status, the associated goals, interventions, and outcomes will be removed. To update the identified date, click in the corresponding field and then select a date. The default date is today's date. To enter additional information, click Comments. To enter a primary concern for the current concern, select the primary concern in the Secondary to field. Click Add. The added health concern appears in the bottom-right grid. Parent topic: Manage Health Concerns

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Care Plan

You can use the Care Plan templates to address patients' health concerns and monitor their progress toward resolving specific concerns. Patient Care Plans You can create a care plan to address patients' health concerns and monitor their progress toward resolving specific concerns. Manage Health Concerns Manage Goals, Interventions, and Outcomes Patient Care Team Members Document Functional and Cognitive Assessments You can document a patient's functional and cognitive assessments in the Functional and Cognitive Assessment Status panel. Review a Patient's Care Plan History View At A Glance Panel Related concepts Patient Care Plans Manage Health Concerns Manage Goals, Interventions, and Outcomes Patient Care Team Members Review a Patient's Care Plan History Related tasks Document Functional and Cognitive Assessments View At A Glance Panel

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Add a Patient Goal to Address a Health Concern

You can add multiple goals to a single health concern. To add multiple goals, repeat this procedure for each goal. From the navigation bar, click Care Plan. The Care Plan template appears. Expand the Goals, Interventions and Outcomes panel. The Select a Health concern to document section appears with all previously added health concerns. Goals, Interventions and Outcomes panel Select a health concern from the list. The information about the selected health concern goal fields appears on the right. Goal details on the Goals, Interventions and Outcomes panel In the Goal field, type a goal description to address the health concern, or use Common Phrases. Indicate if the goal is a patient goal or a provider goal. Verify that the life cycle status of the goal is set to Active. You can also change the status. For Goal achieved, do one or more of the following: Select Yes, No, Goal not attainable, or No progress toward goal. Click the field below and then select an option from the list that a

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Care Plan Components

You can create a care plan to address a patient's health concerns and to monitor their progress toward resolving the identified concerns on the Care Plan template. The care plan consists of following components: Field Description Type The type of care plan Status The status of the care plan Intent The intent of the care plan Panel Description Add/Edit Health Concerns Consolidates categorized health concerns from several sources within the application Health concern categories include but are not limited to allergy, vital signs, social history, smoking and tobacco use. Patient Care Team Members Displays information about a patient's care team and enables providers to update the care team by adding modifying members Functional and Cognitive Assessment Status Enables providers to record functional and cognitive assessments for patients Goals, Interventions, and Outcomes Enables providers to define goals, identify interventions, and track outcomes for identified patient health concerns Car

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