View Linked Vitals

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Link Vitals and Records

The Link Vitals button is used to link patient's vital signs records to an existing entry. The patient's vital signs are documented in the Vital Signs Monitoring panel. Note: To display the Link Vitals, Show Linked Vitals, and Show Linked Records buttons in the Documentation Log panel, you must clear the Disable linked vitals and linked records functionality check box in the Documentation Log panel on the Documentation Log Config practice template. Select an entry from the grid in the Documentation Log panel. The Link Vitals button activates. Click Link Vitals. The Vital Signs Monitoring template opens. The template includes a list of vital signs records documented in the Vital Signs Monitoring panel for the current encounter. Select a row of vitals to be linked to the entry. Click Close. The Linked Vitals column in the grid displays Y to indicate vitals linked to the entry. Parent topic: Documentation Log Panel on the ASC - Preprocedure Template

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Links and Buttons on the ASC Documentation Log

Element Description Quick Save Enables you to save the documented values as the default set for the future use in the template. For more information on Quick Save, go to NextGen Healthcare Success Community, and download the latest Getting Started User Guide forNextGen®Adaptive Content Engine. Link Vitals Opens the Vital Signs Monitoring template to link vital signs records to an entry type. Add Follow Up Enables you to link an entry type to another entry type Show Linked Vitals Enables you to view vital signs records linked to an entry type. Show Linked Records Enables you to view the entries linked to an entry type. Add/Edit Comments Opens the Documentation Log Comments template to add or edit comments for a selected entry. Entry label and arrows Used to navigate to saved entries for the patient. Parent topic: Documentation Log Panel on the ASC - Preprocedure Template

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Add Follow-up to an Existing Entry

The Add Follow Up button is used to add a follow-up entry to an existing entry. Note: To display the Add Follow Up button in the Documentation Log panel, you must clear the Disable linked vitals and linked records functionality check box in the Documentation Log panel on the Documentation Log Config practice template. Select an entry from the grid in the Documentation Log panel. The Add Follow Up button activates. Click Add Follow Up. Select the appropriate values from the left panes and the right grid to document follow-up. Click Save & Close. The follow-up entry adds to the grid in the Documentation Log panel. In the grid, the Linked Record column of the follow-up entry and the original entry includes the same linked ID. Parent topic: Documentation Log Panel on the ASC - Preprocedure Template

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View Linked Records

The Show Linked Records button is used to view any follow-up entries linked to an existing entry in the grid. Select an entry from the grid in the Documentation Log panel. The Show Linked Records button activates if the selected entry has a follow-up entry. Click the Show Linked Records button. The Linked Previous Record template opens with the follow-up entries linked to the entry, if any. To remove a linked entry, highlight a row in the grid and click the Unlink button. Click Close. Parent topic: View Linked Vitals

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Documentation Log Panel on the ASC - Preprocedure Template

The Documentation Log panel is a centralized location to document patient's assessments, routine quick notes, medications administered to the patient, any adverse events that occurred during the procedure, and the nursing diagnosis and nursing assessments initiated for the patient. The Documentation Log panel is also available on the following templates: ASC - Intraprocedure ASC - Postprocedure ASC - Anesthesiology Documentation Log The Procedure field displays the first procedure documented in the current encounter. The Documentation Log panel includes the following filter fields: View by - Filters the entries by: All entries - Displays entries documented for the categories as a separate record. This filter option sorts entries by time with the most recent entries at the top. All entry records - Displays a concatenated view of different categories documented in an entry. This filter option sorts entries by time with the most recent entries at the top. Flowsheet - Displays the vital si

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Configure Values for Categories and Sub-Categories

In the Documentation Log panel, you can add descriptions to the category and/or sub-category associated with an entry type. The Documentation Log panel includes the buttons described below: Previous Level - Moves back to the previous level if you have more than one level for a description in the right grid. The Previous Level button is inactive for the first level of the description. You need to highlight a row in the grid and click the Previous Level button to view the previous level data. Next Level - Moves to the next level if you have more than one level for a description in the right grid. The Next Level button is inactive for the last level of the description. You need to select a row in the grid and click the Next Level button to view the next level data. In the run-time ASC Documentation Log template, the configured descriptions appear in the right grid after you select an entry type from the first left pane and a category or sub-category from the second left pane. If you selec

View Linked Vitals

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