SurgiNet - Preoperative Checklist

The Preoperative Checklist may not be visible as a default in Interactive View. If the Preoperative Checklist is not on view, the navigator band can be added in manually. Once added in by the user it will remain on view for all subsquent patients and logins.

1. Within the patient’s chart, click on the Interactive

View menu tab.

2. Navigate to the Task Bar Task Bar and select View >

Layout > Navigator Bands.

3. The Navigator Documents window will display.

4. Within the Navigator Documents window select theappropriate navigator band and use the arrow tomove them across to Current Document Types.

5. Select OK.

6. The Changes to Navigator Bands window will

display – select OK.

7. Exit the patients chart, and then reopen – thePreoperative Checklist will now be an availableNavigator Band.

8. Select the Preoperative Checklist or Paediatric PreOpAssessment Navigator band (whatever isappropriate for your patients age).

9. Navigate to the Preoperative Checklist section withinthe band to begin documentation.

Please ensure one or both of the appropriate Navigator Bands for your area are added:

• Preoperative Checklist Band – for Adults

• Paediatric Preop Assessment Band – forPaediatrics

Preoperative Checklist bands do not need to be added to Emergency Department roles as the preoperative checklist section is already included in the:

• ED Adult Condensed View

• ED Paediatric Condensed View

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10. Complete the electronic checklist for your patient.

Remember to select the green tick to save theinformation entered.

11. When you are ready to exit the patient record pleaseremember to exit through the exit door symbol.

Second Person Validation

The Preoperative Checklist is able to be completed and saved by two clinicians simultaneously (if required) using the Checklist Done simultaneously cell. This functionality should only be used when clinically necessary, and the Preoperative Checklist should reoutinely be completed by the ward nurse before transferring the patient to the Operating Theatre (where the second checklist will be completed).

1. Click into the Checklist Done simultaneously cell andselect Yes (only complete this cell if the checklist isbeing done by two clinicians simultaneously. If notleave this cell blank).

2. Click the Green Tick to sign the checklist.

3. The Witness Required window will open.

4. Type in the name of the witness in the Witnessed Byfield.

5. The Witness Signature window will open.

6. Confirm the 2nd person is correct.

7. Click Witness Sign button.

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8. The Authorising Signature window will open – witness to type username and password, and clicks OK.

9. The information within the Perioperative Checklist is now saved.

Viewing Users Involved in Simultaneous Check In

1. Right click on the Yes within the Checklist Done Simultaneously cell.

2. Click View Result Details.

3. The Results Details window will open.

4. Click Action List.

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