This guide is for all staff who view Pathology Orders and Radiology Requests that have been placed on Sunrise, and to add filters to the list of orders

 

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Tips/notes

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With the patient selected and displayed in the Patient Banner, click on the ‘Orders’ tab to see all orders that have been placed

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The ‘Order Summary’ will display with the groups closed

 

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Click ‘+’ icon to expand the Pathology section to see all the tests.

Status of the tests:

  • Pending (due to be collected in more than 24 hours)
  • Pending Collection (to be collected within 24 hours)
  • Collected
  • Cancelled 

 

4

Close the Pathology section by clicking the ‘–‘ icon to the left hand side

 

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The ‘Options Panel’ on the left has options to filter the orders displayed.

 

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‘This Chart’ will show just the orders placed on the current attendance, whereas ‘All Available Charts’ will display all orders from all attendances

 

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The ‘Display Format’   and ‘Group/Sort By’   buttons on the toolbar determine the way the orders are displayed on the screen. The same options are available in the Options Panel

 

     

 

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There are also options to select the information to display for each order

 

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Filters can be used to show just orders that meet defined criteria.

 

In the ‘Filters’ section, click the arrow at the end of the required line

 

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The ‘QuickPicks’ tab will show the available filters.

 

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You need to build your own QuickPick filters and then they will be available for use again and again.

 

Where available, select the ‘Custom’ tab

 

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Scroll down the list and tick the required options

 

Note - clicking ‘OK’ will run the filter as a one-off and it will not be added to the QuickPick list for future use

 

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Click on the ‘Save’ icon

 

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Give your list a name and click ‘OK’

 

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The filter will run and open the Pathology section in the main panel and filter it to show only ‘Pending Collection’ tests.

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You may run multiple filters simultaneously to achieve the required result

 

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To remove a filter, select ‘No Status/Priority Filter’ to return to the full list of orders

 


 

 

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This table shows the different statuses available for each type of test.

 

Note – The ‘pending’ badge on the Radiology icon will not update as the request is processed, performed and reported. 

 

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Note - from the ‘Orders’ tab you can reorder tests, cancel orders that haven’t yet been processed, mark specimens as collected to print the sample labels and reprint labels if required. Separate QRGs are available for these.