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Vital Signs for Well Child

You can review the vital signs added by the intake staff and makes the applicable changes in the Vital Signs panel on the Pediatric SOAP template.

You can click Add to open one of the following templates:
  • The Pediatric Under 2 Years Vital Signs template for patients below two years of age.
  • The Pediatric Over 2 Years Vital Signs template for patients between two and ten years of age.
Vital Signs

You can add multiple vital signs of a patient during an encounter. You can update and remove the documented vital signs using the Edit and Remove button, respectively.

You can add a patient's height in inches or in feet and inches. By default, theNextGen® Enterprise EHRdisplays the height in inches. In theVital Signssection on theVital Signs Configurationtemplate, you can configure the unit for displaying the height. When you enter the height on theVital Signstemplate, it appears in the configured unit.