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Emergency Medicine at HCMC The first 2 columns refer to the patient’s room, and the age of the patient with blue denoting male patients and pink denoting female patients. The age column provides a short to the patient's registration data. The next three columns denote the primary nurse, the primary medical provider (who is the physician's assistant, medical student, resident, or attending caring for the patient primarily), and the physician column, which refers to patient's senior resident and the color being the faculty color. Clicking anywhere in these three columns will take you to be provider's sign up screen. The next column contains the name of each patient with the color being the color of the senior resident signed up for the patient. The next column contains the chief complaint. PV stands for previous visits. The number refers to the number of visits within the past 24 months. This column also provides a short cut to view in the data from this particular patients visits over that time. If this number is red the patient has been seen in the emergency department or CIC or urgent care within the past 72 hours. TID stands for time in department and this is color-coded to the patient's acuity as determined by the nurse during the patient's initial assessment. If TID has black numbers on a red background that patient is either acuity 4 or 5 and should be seen as soon as possible regardless if other patients have been in department longer. Patients of all other acuities should be seen in the order they presented to the emergency department. The next columns refer to patient registration, nursing, physician, laboratory, x-ray, clerical, and disposition status. For further training we will use a chart rack showing a test patient
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