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The "Save Later" feature is not enabled on all PainChek licenses. If it is not enabled on your license, you will not see the "Later" option as described below and you will need to complete or delete the current assessment before moving onto a new one.
When conducting a PainChek assessment, you may find that you need to obtain some additional details before you can complete the assessment (e.g. referring to a residents medical history). PainChek provides a "Save Later" feature that allows you to pause the current assessment so that you can complete it a short time later.
We strongly recommend all PainChek assessments are completed in one session and as soon as possible after they are started. This will lead to the most accurate assessments and best resident outcomes.
Limitations
If you have an incomplete assessment for a resident, you are not able to start another assessment for that person. You are able to create new assessments for other residents.
Reminders
If you chose to use the Save Later feature, you will be reminded every 30 minutes you have an assessment to complete.
On the first three reminders, you have three options:
- Complete - You can complete the assessment
- Delete - You can discard the incomplete assessment
- Later - You can defer completing the assessment for another 30 minutes
On the fourth (last) reminder, you have two options:
- Complete - You can complete the assessment
- Delete - You can discard the incomplete assessment
Creating an unsaved assessment
From the Assessment Summary form
Swipe until you get to "The Body", leaving the assessment details incomplete for one or more of the domains, and select Display Summary:
The summary will display all incomplete domains in red. Select Later:
A prompt will appear which explains that the assessment has not been saved and that you will be reminded after 30 minutes:
From one of the Domain forms
You can select the "Cancel" option form one of the domain forms.
The following prompt will appear:
Discard will cancel the assessment and take you back to the resident dashboard.
Keep will take you to the assessment summary where you can select Later to create an unsaved assessment.
Completing a previously unsaved assessment
When a resident has an unsaved assessment, the assessment will be displayed in red.
Select the unsaved assessment from the resident dashboard:
The incompleted domains will be displayed in red. Press the domain you would like to complete:
Once you have selected the domain you would like to continue on from, you can swipe left to right to move between the domains.
Once you have completed all the domains, go to The Body and select Display Summary and press Save.
The assessment will be displayed as saved:
Deleting an unsaved assessment
In the cases where an unsaved assessment needs to be deleted, select the unsaved assessment:
Select "Delete Assessment" at the bottom of the screen:
You will receive a prompt confirming that you would like to delete the assessment. Select Delete:
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