Adding a patient to a primary employee

Primary employees who are scheduled to work in a unit display on the assignment panel and are ready for patients to be assigned to them. Only one licensed employee, typically an RN, is assigned to be the primary care provider for a patient or group of patients. The primary employee plus the assigned patient or patients is called an assignment. An employee can have only one primary assignment.
  1. Select Clinical Science > Assignments > Patient Assignments.
  2. Verify that the correct Assignment Parameters have been selected. If they have not, select the data from the appropriate search boxes above the header. You can scroll, filter or perform a search to locate the data.
  3. On the Patients + Beds tab, select the patients to be added.
  4. On the Assignments panel on the left side of the screen, expand the Primary Employee who should be assigned the patients and click the + symbol for Add Patients. The patients display on the assignment panel grouped with the assigned nurse.