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The Reassign Patient option is available only when using an Assignment type of list. Assignment lists are typically used in situations where responsibility for a pool of patients is shared among different individual providers, or teams of providers. Assignment lists have three components: the master assignment list (the entire pool of patients needing assignment), two or more named sublists (the providers or teams to which they are assigned), and the Unassigned sublist (the patients who have not yet been assigned to a named sublist). See Types of Patient Lists for a more complete description of Assignment type lists. Providers and/or administrators will need to assign patients from the master list of patients to one of the sublists. Or in some cases, a patient may need to be reassigned from one sublist to a different sublist, or back to the Unassigned sublist. If the assignment feature is enabled for in your user profile, you can make the following types of changes:

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Reassigning Patients from the Master Assignment List on Apple iPad Devices

When using an iPad™, the workflow for reassigning patients from the master assignment list to a sublist is different, depending on whether you want to reassign just a single patient, or multiple patients. To reassign a single patient from a master assignment list to a sublist, the steps are the same as if you were using an iPhone. Follow the steps described in Reassigning a Patient from the Master Assignment List on Apple iPhone Devices. To reassign multiple patients from a master assignment list to a sublist, follow these steps:
  1. In the Patient List screen, select a master assignment list. See Switching Patient Lists for instructions on how to select a patient list.
  2. Tap Edit at the top left of the screen. The Manage Patients screen displays.
  3. Select the radio button to the right of any patient in the list.
A purple checkmark is shown to the right of the patient name. Assign (n) displays at the bottom of the screen and keeps a running count of how many patients are selected.
  1. Select Assign (n) at the bottom of the screen. The Master Assignment screen displays.
  2. Check the box next to each of sublists that you want to move patients to and from. For example, if you want to move patients from the Unassigned sublist to the “ER Gold Team” you would check the box next to those two items. Or, you can check all of the boxes to work with all of the sublists at once. For each sublist that you select, a column is displayed on the screen. Each column shows the name and location of all of the patients that are currently on that sublist. Please note that if a particular list is too long to fit on the screen, you cannot scroll up or down. Instead, use the Page Up and Page Down arrows located at the top of each sublist, so that you can see the next set of patients.
  3. Select one or more patients by tapping on their row(s) or using the Select All button (the rows are then highlighted in orange). Drag the selected patient(s) from one sublist, and drop them onto another sublist. Once a patient is moved to a different sublist, they are highlighted in green, so that you can clearly see the changes that you have made so far. If you make a mistake, simply drag the patient back to their original list.
  4. Tap Done when you are finished distributing the patients among the sublists. The Manage Patients screen displays.
    The Master Assignment screen does not use any of the selections made on the Manage Patients screen. It only recognizes changes done in the Master Assignment screen.
  5. Tap Done to return to the Patient List screen.

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Reassigning a Patient from the Master Assignment List on Apple iPhone Devices

  1. In the Patient List screen, select a master assignment list. See Switching Patient Lists for instructions on how to select a patient list.
  2. Swipe right-to-left on a patient’s row. When the context buttons appear, select Reassign (if available), or select More and then choose Reassign from the menu.
Reassign button More button All of the sublists for this master assignment list are displayed.
  1. In the Assign To field, select the sublist to which you want to assign the patient(s). Or select the Unassigned sublist if you want to move a patient from a sublist back to the Unassigned sublist. A checkmark will display on the right side of the selected sublist to indicate that is was selected.
  2. Tap Save. The patient is assigned to the sublist that you chose.

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Reassigning Patients from a Sublist

  1. In the Patient List screen, select a named sublist (such as the “ER Gold Team”) or the Unassigned sublist. See Switching Patient Lists for instructions on how to select a patient list.
  2. Perform either a or b below:
  3. To reassign a single patient to another sublist, swipe right-to-left on that patient’s row. When the context buttons appear, select Reassign (if available), or select More and then choose Reassign from the menu. Skip to Step 5.
Reassign button More button 2. To reassign several patients to another sublist, tap Edit at the top left of the screen. The Manage Patients screen appears, showing all of the patients on the named sublist or the Unassigned sublist. Continue to the next step. 3. Select the radio button to the left of each patient that you want to reassign. Or, choose Select All at the top left of the screen to select all of the patients at once. A purple checkmark is shown to the right of the patient name. Assign (n) displays at the bottom left of the screen and keeps a running count of how many patients are selected.
  1. Select Assign (n). The Assign screen is displayed. In the top half of the screen, the number of currently selected patients is displayed (tap the Information icon to see a list of their names). In the bottom half, the currently selected sublist is shown with a checkmark, along with the sublists to which you can reassign the patients.
  2. In the Assign To field, select the sublist to which you want to assign the patient(s). Or select the Unassigned sublist if you want to move a patient from a sublist back to the Unassigned sublist.
  3. Tap Save. The patients are assigned to the sublist that you chose.