Nurses Training Guide - UCSF Radiation Oncology

Nurses Training Guide
Notes
Adding a Note
1. Click File | Notes….
Displays the Patient Notes window, shown in Figure 15 .
Figure 15: Patient Notes Window
The Patient Notes window contains the following features and components.
View General patient notes are created from the Patient
Notes window whereas the patient notes listed
under all were created by clicking the Notes
button while in a form such as Orders.
Type Displays the note type as entered in the Patient
Note dialog box. Possible note types are: Admin-
General, Billing, Clinical-General, Dosimetry,
Lab, Nursing, Physician, and Physics. You can
create additional note types in Department Setup.
Category When a note type is defined, the system
automatically assigns a Category to the note:
Clinical or Admin (administrative). The note type
category defines whether users require
clinical/notes or administrative/notes security
rights to access the note.
Created Displays the date the note was first created.
By Displays the initials of the user who initially
created the note.
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