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The practice phone app
Using RizCare on a phone at the hospital: setting it up, seeing the day, adding walk-ins, recording readings and drafting visit notes.
- Set up RizCare on your phoneSign in once on a phone so the practice's records are stored on it and open with or without a connection.
- Open RizCare with your passwordOpen the records on a phone you have already set up, by typing the password you use for RizCare.
- Lock RizCare before you put the phone downClose the records on the phone so nobody else can read them, without losing anything you have saved.
- Sign out of the practice appEnd your session with the practice on this phone, and what happens the next time you open the records.
- Add a second account to a shared phoneSet up your own account on a phone a colleague already uses, so each of you opens only your own records.
- Remove an account from a shared phoneTake one person's account off a phone, leaving the phone and everybody else's accounts on it as they are.
- Reset a phone nobody can openClear every account off a phone when nobody knows the password it was set up with, then set it up again.
- See who is waiting on TodayRead the day's patients on the phone, grouped by where each one is, and open the one you need.
- Add a walk-in from the phonePut a patient who arrived without an appointment on today's list, from anywhere in the practice.
- Record the arrival of a booked patientMark a patient who has an appointment today as arrived, which opens their visit for readings and a note.
- Register a patient on the phoneAdd a new patient to the practice from the phone, with the folder number and details from their paper folder.
- Find a patient and open their chartSearch the patients on the phone by name, folder number or phone, and read their chart without a connection.
- Record readings at a visitAdd blood pressure, temperature, pulse and weight to a patient's visit on the phone, with or without a connection.
- Mark a lab result as reviewedRead a returned lab report on the patient's visit and record, in your own words, what you took from it.
- Draft a visit note on the phoneWrite the assessment and plan for a visit on the phone as a draft in your name, ready to sign on a computer.
- Check the diary on the phoneSee each clinician's appointments for a day, with the free times between them, from the Today screen.
- Book an appointment from the phoneBook a patient into a free time in a clinician's diary from the phone, while the patient is still in front of you.
- Move or cancel an appointment from the phoneChange the time of a booked appointment, or cancel it with the reason, from the diary on the phone.
- See what is waiting to sendCheck on the Waiting screen what this phone has sent to the practice today and what it still holds.
- Keep working when the connection dropsWhat the phone still does with no connection, and how the work you save reaches the practice afterwards.
- Update the practice app when it asksWhat the phone shows when RizCare needs an update before you carry on, and how to tell whether your work has been sent.