Document Pain Assessment and Plan of Care
You can document the pain assessment details and follow-up plan of care.
- Open NextGen® Enterprise EHR.
- Open the Intake template.
- Expand the Vital Signs panel, and then select the Health Promotion Plan link.
The Health Promotion Plan template opens.
- Expand the Pain Management panel.
Note: The Pain level and Method fields display the details entered on the Vital Signs template. You cannot update the pain level and method in the Pain Management panel.
- To manage exceptions and view measure details on the Exceptions/Measures template, select Exceptions.
- If details are not entered in the Pain level section on the Vital Signs template, select the following fields, and select the appropriate option in the list.
- Pain level
- Method
- Duration
- Quality
- To indicate to see the HPI details, select the See HPI check box.
- Enter the location of the pain of the patient.
- Select Onset, and select the date when the pain started.
- Enter the follow-up plan of care for a patient or select My Phrases to select from the saved phrases.
- Select OK.