Creating a New Risk Reporter Incident

Creating a New Risk Reporter Incident

In this article:

Create a New Incident

Filling out the Incident

Modify the Date and Time of an Incident

 

Create a New Incident

  1. Click the "New" button on the Risk Reporter Home page New_Incident.png.

  2. A pop up will appear.
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  3. Fill in the Facility, Resident, and the Incident Date/Time fields. All required as indicated by an asterisk (*).

  4. Choose the appropriate incident type, which will determine the required fields for compliance.

    • If you don't see a suitable option, select "Other" to view additional incident types from a dropdown menu. Set up “Other” options on the Risk Reporter Setting page.

  5. Once you've selected the incident type, the incident form will appear.

    Editing the Facility, Resident, and Incident Type can not be done after the incident form appears. However, you can modify the Date/Time.

  6. Begin filling in the required fields and any other applicable information.

  7. When you're done, click "Save". Save.png

  8. Close the incident form by clicking the "Back Arrow" backarrow.png that is to the left of the resident name. 

 

Filling out the Incident

There are 5 Sections to fill out. They do not have to be filled out in any specific order.

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  1. General- This section contains the basic facts about the incident.
  2. Details- This section goes into the incident in more detail. There is where you put in whether or not the Admin, Director of Nursing and Law Enforcement were notified about the incident.
    This section will change based on the incident type chosen.
  3. Injury- Explain any injury that occurred as a result of the incident.
  4. Actions- Fill out what actions were taken as a result
  5. Investigate- This is the place where you document investigations conducted with the parties involved, aiming to uncover the root cause of the event.
  6. Sign Off- Here is where a user, with a role which is designated to sign off, signs and closes the incident.  This section will only appear once the incident was submitted. See Signing off an Incident for more details.

There are also Notes and Attachment tabs to add any additional information pertaining to the incident.

 

Related Information:

  • The right hand panel shows the basic incident creation info.

  • It also shows the Care Plan summaries that are pulled from your organizations clinical records.

  • There is a "View Audit Log" button found at the bottom. Clicking on it will display a report that contains a log of all the changes made to the incident, providing a history of its modifications.
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Modify the Date and Time of an Incident

Once an incident was created the Facility, Resident and Type of incident cannot be edited. However, the Date and Time can if necessary. To do so, navigate to the incident's detail page and hover over the Incident Date at the top of the page. An edit button will appear. Click on it and make the changes.

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