LSS 5.6.4 Cover Selection

Overview: The cover function allows providers and nurses to access charts on other providers Practice Schedule, and is somewhat different in 5.6.4 than from 5.4.

Function: Covering allows nurses to manage the Task List and Practice Schedules for different providers in their workgroup.  Covering allows providers access to other providers Task List and Practice Schedule.  Instances when nurses might cover for multiple providers:

• Nurses may be rooming and managing patient tasks for more than one provider.
• Nurses may process eRx Renewal requests for multiple providers.
• Nurses may be temporarily covering in other departments.

Providers may cover for other providers for multiple reasons:

• Provider called away and patient seen by another provider.
• Signing tasks for another provider who is out of the clinic.

Location: The buttons to control the Cover function are located in the footer area on the Desktop and Practice Schedule screens.

Buttons:

Cover Select:  This footer button will allow providers and resources to be added to the covered list or to completely clear the covered list.  Clicking this footer button will call up the Cover Screen to allow the selection of providers to add to the current list being covered.  The currently selected covered list will be displayed in the upper part of the screen, under the Selected Workgroup and Selected Providers Lists.  In the lower part of the screen, there will be with three toggle buttons. Provider, Workgroup, and Favorites, which will display a different list of providers and resources to select from.   The default list for providers is the Provider list, and is a list of all providers in the system.  The Workgroup list is a list of providers and resources in the clinic.  Favorites are the previously selected providers or resources added to the favorites list. 

To find a provider, select the appropriate list, either Workgroups or Providers.  Then, either click on the name if it is currently visible in the list to select that name, or type in the first three letters of the provider's last name.  This will narrow the search to make the correct name visible in the list for selection.

Multiple providers can be selected from the Provider or Workgroup lists.  When the correct providers have been selected and appear in the Selected Providers and Selected Workgroups lists at the top of the screen, click the OK footer button to save the changes.

To deselect any currently selected provider or resource, click on the checkmark in front of their name on the Selected Provider or Selected Workgroup List.  This will remove that provider or resource from the currently covered list.

To clear the entire provider list and remove all the names from the list of providers being covered, click on the Clear footer button in the Select Provider List screen, and then click on the OK footer button.

If you click the Cancel footer button in the Select Provider List screen, you will leave the Select Cover Function without making any changes you have entered.


Cover: This footer button displays the Task List and Practice Schedule items for the currently selected providers on the covered provider list. 

My List: This footer button removes the Task List and Practice Schedule items for the currently selected providers on the covered provider list.  The only items displayed will be for the using provider or for the nurses primary provider.  The currently covered list is not erased, however, and the Task List and Practice Schedule items for the currently covered list can be redisplayed by clicking on the Cover footer button again.