LSS Hints: Cover Button

The cover function allows providers and nurses to access charts on other providers practice list.

To select a provider to cover for, and to be able to access their Practice List, click on the Cover footer button.  The Select Provider Llist will appear.  The default list will be the entire provider list and the Provider toggle button will be highlighted indicating it is active.  This is a list of all providers in the system, even those not in your clinic.  Type in the first three letters of the last name of the provider to be covered for to narrow the search, and select the appropriate name.  Multiple providers can be selected from the provider list.  When you have selected the appropriate providers, then click the OK footer button to save the changes.  Use the Workgroup toggle button to list only the providers in your clinic.

To cancel covering for other providers, click on the Cover footer button and then click on the Reset footer button when the select provider list appears.  This will clear out the providers in your cover list.  Click the OK footer button to save the change.

When you select the Cover footer button, three toggle buttons are available:  Favorites, Workgroup, Providers.  The Favorites toggle button will bring up the list of favorites you have previously selected.  The Workgroup toggle button will bring up a list of providers in your clinic.  This should be much shorter than the list of all providers in the system that is brought up when you click the Providers tab button.

To add providers to your favorites list, after clicking on the Cover footer button, and selecting a provider as described above, while that name is highlighted with a light green background, click the Save As Favorite footer button.  This name will be added to the list that appears when you click the Favorites toggle button.  Unfortunately, you can only cover from one provider from the favorite list.  If you need to cover for multiple providers, select them from the workgroup list or the provider list.

If you click on the Cancel footer button while making changes to the cover provider list, all the changes you have entered will be discarded and no changes will be made to the covering list currently active.

When you are covering for another provider and your cover list is active, the My List footer button will be active, and clicking on it will return you back to your own practice list.