Getting Started with Vitals
The Vitals application is designed to collect the vital
signs and measurements that are associated with a patient's hospital stay
or outpatient clinic visit, and store the data in the patient's electronic
medical record. Data can be accessed by several VistA (Veterans Health
Information Systems and Technology Architecture) applications that interface
with the Vitals/Measurements application, such as CPRS, Health Summary,
and Pharmacy.
The Vitals module is used to enter vitals data, create
user templates, view allergies, mark incorrect vitals as entered in error,
and edit user preferences for data display on the vitals data table. The
Vitals module also allows users to print several different Vitals reports.
To open the Vitals application:
- Double-click the Vitals icon on your desktop to open the
VistA sign-on window, or select Vitals from the CPRS Tools
menu.
- Enter your access and verify codes, then click OK. The main
Vitals window opens.
The window layout is saved between sessions, so the last window shown will
be restored when Vitals opens.
From the main Vitals window, you can:
Select a patient
Enter vitals data for one
patient or multiple
patients
Mark
vitals as entered in error
View vitals data
on a graph and print a vitals
report
View allergies
View
general information for the selected patient
Create a
user template
Set user options
and preferences
Also see:
About
the CCOW clinical link
List of
Access Keys and Keyboard Shortcuts