Using the Patient Acuity Assessment History Page

Note: Your Staff Manager configuration may not include this optional application. To add this application to your configuration, contact your Clinical Consultant or Client Advocate.

Complete the following steps to open and use the Patient Acuity Assessment History page:

1. Open the Patient Acuity Assessment History page using one of the following methods:
   • From the Acuity menu, select Patient Assessment History.
   • Click the History icon beside a patient’s name while on the Patient Acuity Assessment Status page.
2. Select a Facility from the menu in the Navigation Pane, if applicable.
3. Select a Profile/Location from the menu in the Navigation Pane.
4. Select a Patient Filter Setting, if desired.
   • Show Current displays all patients on the selected profiles and locations as of now, according to the patient location list maintained by the Registration Import.
   • Show Recent displays only those patients who were in one of the selected locations within the past eight hours, but who are currently in a different profile/location.
5. Select a patient from the Patient List. The page displays all previous assessments on record for the patient. Assessment records are sorted by date and time with the most recent shown first. The page view defaults to the currently selected patient’s data.
6. To view another patient’s history, select that patient’s name in the Patient List section of the Navigation pane.

Deleting an Assessment

Delete Assessment lets you delete an assessment. This also removes the calculated target staffing connected to the assessment.

The most common reasons to delete an assessment are A) the assessment was incomplete and has been replaced with a completed assessment or B) the assessment was entered in error. Any user with full or Read and Write Acuity access can delete an assessment. The audit trail will track, by login, who deleted the assessment.

When an assessment is deleted, the following message displays: You are about to delete the [date and time] patient assessment for [patient name/patient encounter number]. Are you sure you want to delete this assessment?

You should click OK to delete the assessment or click Cancel to keep it.

Editing an Assessment

Edit Assessment lets you change an incomplete assessment, but the current time must be within eight hours of the original assessment time. If more than eight hours have passed, you should delete the incomplete assessment and create a new one backdated no more than eight hours prior to the current date and time.

Incomplete assessments more than eight hours old, completed assessments, and audit assessments cannot be edited. In these cases, the Edit Assessment icon displays a gray background: .

Printing an Assessment

Print Assessment lets you print the selected assessment with the Likert ratings selected.

You can also print patient assessments using the Assessment History tab of the Patient Encounter Information window.

Printing an Audit View

Audit Printable View lets you print a blank assessment page for the selected patient without any Likert ratings selected. The printable view is based on the patient's current location and service.

Telling Direct Entry Assessments from Clinical Documentation Assessments

The Patient Acuity Assessment History page also displays whether assessments were filed by direct entry or completed by a clinical documentation interface. The interface icon is displayed before the Acuity level of assessments completed by the interface.

About the Interface Manager

Interface Manager is a utility used to check interface activity and search patient clinical documentation received via flat file or Registration Import. Administrators interested in this tool should contact their Cerner Corporation Clinical Consultant.

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