Assessments

Practitioners can either complete a patient's assessment with them or print and provide a blank assessment to the patient for them to complete and return.

About this task

Complete the required assessment in the Assessment iconAssessments panel from the Consult iconConsult panel.

Procedure

To complete an assessment:
  1. From the PatientPatient Search or Patient Queue iconPatient Queue, select the Consult buttonConsult panel.
  2. In the Consult panel, click Assessments.
    Tip: If you can't see this option in the Consult toolbar, click more iconMore.
  3. The Assessments panel is displayed with a list of assessments relevant to the patient's gender and age.
    Assssments panel
  4. Click the required assessment to initiate it. For example, Nutrition Assessment .
    Nutrition Assessments example
  5. If required, view the past assessment scores, print a blank assessment and so on. For more information, see Assessments Actions.
  6. Click Save or to save and print a completed assessment to hand to the patient, click Save & print.

Results

The completed assessment is added to the Consult actions > Other actions section of the Consult iconConsult panel.
Completed Assessments

What to do next

In the Other actions section:
  • To view a completed assessment, select it.
  • To print an assessment, click Print iconPrint.
  • To reprint a completed assessment that has already been printed, click Reprint iconReprint.
  • To delete an assessment, click Delete iconDelete.