Nurses Training Guide - UCSF Radiation Oncology

Lesson 1: The Basics
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Notes
Editing and Appending Notes
Once you complete the note, click to
attach it to the dialog box.
When a note has been created from a form such
as Orders, its presence is indicated by a
appearing next to the Note button. If the note is
also a message, the message is transmitted.
If you click Cancel to exit the dialog box, the
newly created or modified note is ignored and not
recorded. No message is transmitted.
You can use the Append option to add comments to any note without changing the
original note text. When you append text to a note, the date and your user ID initials
are added to the appended note text. In this exercise, you will append text to notes.
1. Click File | Notes….
Displays the Patient Note window, shown earlier in Figure 15.
2. Select the note type, then click .
Displays the Patient Note window for the selected note, shown in Figure 17.
Figure 17: Patient Note Window - Edit