1. Introduction
The following gives a general overview of how a Nurse Practitioner interacts with system on a daily basis. The focus is how the User places order to the radiology department, an action which is usually taken based on discretion rather than instruction by the Resident Physician.
2. Purpose
The purpose of the User Stories is to understand how the user prefers to interact with the order placement methodology basing our report on what currently exist and other things that are currently not existing but could make the order placement easier.
3. Intended user
The Intended user is a Nurse practitioner and also a Radiologist PA, who would have gone through the training as a Technologist. These individuals place order to the Technologist to conduct a certain procedure on a particular Patient.
4. Use Case
Components of the System
Laboratory: The laboratory tab should contain a spreadsheet categorized to see test from different procedures the patient has gone through e.g Radiology, Biopsy, Ultrasound etc.
Order: This should contain a page where the user can place order to different section of the hospital.
Review: The section where the user can check the status of the ordered tests. The user should be able to review new orders results as well as old ones.
Task 1-Routine Check on Patient's status
Users should be able to conduct a general routine check on a patient to determine if there might a reason to for further test.
Summary : Patient status cane be viewed through the laboratory section of the interface. The user can lookout for vital signs and make decisions such as ordering for aditional test.
Users : Must be Nurse Practitioner, Referring Physician.
Steps
Login into the system (See login Procedure page)
Search for the patient through their name or ID
View the labortatory tab to check for vital signs
if there is a need to conduct further check, place an order (see task 2)
Outcome:
Task 2-Place an order
Users should can place an order to any of the sections of the healthcare ecosystem.
Summary : The user is allowed to place an order based on reports of the vital signs. The users can input information about the order in a form that has a dropdown containing different procedures e.g Radiology, Ultrasound
Users : Must be Nurse Practitioner, Referring Physician.
Steps
The user is already logged in
Click the order tab
Choose the appropriate procedure type: which could be radiology, Biopsy e.t.c
The user clicks the selects the procedure title (e.g. CT, US) from the drop down. If it doesn’t exist, the user types it in the box.
The user writes a note in the Additional Information box to make the order clearer to the receipient(s), in this case a Radiologist e.g. P.O. Contrast
Go to to the box for Reason for Examination. state the procedure in detail to as this is required to point the Technologist in the right direction and also to account for the accurate billing of the patient.
in the next box, set the priority to guide the technologist on how urgent the report is.
Send the order
Outcome:
Verify that the user gets notified to fill an empty box when they try to send an incomplete order
4.1 Laboratory
Under the Laboratory tab, the user sees a Vital Signs spreadsheet containing horizontally arranged tabs of different procedure sections of the Laboratory etc. Complete Blood Count(CBC).This is where the user derives the assertiveness to place any order based on the need of the patient.
Task 3 Order Result Review
User can view the list of ordered test under the review section.
Summary : The user clicks the tabs of different procedures to check the order result list. The result is expected to contained a finalized report from a Radiologist.
Steps
The user is already logged in
Click the Review tab
click the Radiology column to view the list of the reports
click the report to view the breakdown(see the Resident page for the format of the report
Outcome:
Verify that the user can sort the list of the report based on different criteria e.g Day, time).
Verify that the newer reports are at the top of the list.
Verify that the new report are in deep colors to differentiate from older ones.