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Creating and Maintaining Patient Alerts in Admin

Learn how to create and manage patient alerts in Instinct!

Updated over 2 weeks ago

Alerts for patients are a flexible list of digital cage stickers that can help to improve communication between all departments and are available to use as either Visit Alerts or Patient Alerts. Click here to learn more about using Alerts in Instinct.

  • Visit Alerts only display for the associated visit and reset once the patient has been checked out.

  • Patient Alerts display in bold for each visit the patient has and are not reset after the patient checks out.

Any user with the “admin_alerts” permission can manage Patient Alerts in Admin.


Adding New Patient Alerts

To add a new Patient Alert, simply click “+ New Alert” at the top of the Patient Alerts Admin page.

Enter a Label, then click on “Save”.


Editing Patient Alerts

To edit a Patient Alert, click on the Patient Alert Label to open the Alert Form for editing. Click on “Save” when finished.

To delete a Patient Alert, click on the “X” on the far right (as shown above).

💡 ProTip: You can use emojis 😍 in most places in Instinct, including Patient Alerts! Check out this Careville article on How to use Emojis!

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