Flows/Process a specimen

flowclinicalCARE 3.1+

Clinical

Concepts

Patient

Encounter Care team Condition Allergy & Intolerance Observation Diagnostic Report Service Request Specimen Consent Clinical Notes

Questionnaire Response

Flows

Search for a patient

Register a patient View a patient's profile Update patient details Manage patient identifiers Manage patient tags Mark a patient as deceased Manage patient users View a patient's appointments and tokens Create an encounter Update encounter details Assign an encounter location Manage the encounter care team Manage encounter departments Manage encounter tags Discharge a patient Complete an encounter

Restart an encounter

References

Patient

Encounter Care team Condition Allergy Intolerance Observation Diagnostic Report Consent Notes Specimen Service Request

Questionnaire Response

Overview

This flow describes how to record a processing step for a collected specimen in Care. A processing step is work done on the specimen before testing, such as centrifuging or staining.

Pre-requisites

• You collected the specimen, and the specimen card shows on the service request page.
• No user created a diagnostic report for the service request. Care hides the processing section after a diagnostic report exists for the service request.
• You have the permissions listed below.

Permissions

Permission	Access
Can Create Specimen on Facility	Lets you record processing steps on a specimen at the facility. Facility Admin, Admin, Doctor, and Nurse have this permission.

Steps

1. Open the service request page

Open the service request for the specimen. The page shows a card for each specimen.

2. Find the processing section

Go to the card of the collected specimen. The card shows the processing section.

📝 Note

Care shows the processing section only after you collect the specimen.

3. Select the processing method

Select the processing method from the coded list. The method names the work done on the specimen.

4. Add the description

Care opens a dialog. Enter a description of the processing step. Save the processing step.

Components	What it captures
Method	The processing method from the coded list.
Description	Your description of the processing step.

5. Add more processing steps

Repeat steps 3 and 4 for each further processing step. Care keeps all steps on the specimen.

Expected Outcome

• The specimen shows the processing step with the method, the description, the performer, and the time.
• The specimen keeps every processing step that you add.

Clinical

Concepts

Patient · Encounter · Care team · Condition · Allergy · Observation · Dx Report · Service Request · Specimen · Consent · Notes · Q. Response

Flows

Search · Register · Profile · Update · Identifiers · Tags · Deceased · Users · Appointments · Create Encounter · Update Encounter · Location · Care Team · Departments · Tags · Discharge · Complete · Restart

References

Patient · Encounter · Care team · Condition · Allergy · Observation · Dx Report · Consent · Notes · Specimen · Service Request · Q. Response

Related

• Concept: Concepts/Specimen

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