Menu, Toolbar, Shortcuts and Function Keys

You can select options from any of the following:

• Menu bar
• Toolbar icons
• Patient Record
• Keyboard

The Consultation Manager Toolbar

To identify the options on the Consultation Manager toolbar, simply hover your mouse over the item required and a Tooltip displays the description.

It is not recommended, but you can switch off the toolbar, select View - Toolbar to remove the tick. If this happens in error, select View - Toolbar again to restore the toolbar.

The following options are available from the toolbar:

• Appointment List - Displays your appointment list, see The Appointments List or Selecting a Patient for details.
• Select Patient (F3) - Select to find a patient's record, see Selecting a Patient for details.
• Select a Patient Group - Select to find a predefined group of patients to work on, see Select a Patient Group for details.
• Patient Details - Select to view patient demographic details and maintain:
  • Contact numbers
  • Preferred/Nominated pharmacy
  • Carer information
    See Patient Details for details.

• / Open/Close a Consultation (F7) - Select to open or close a consultation, this displays as depressed when a consultation is open. See Consultations for details.

• Patient Record View (F10) - Select to display the patient record.

• Chronic Disease Register - Select to view and maintain the key disease register entries of the selected patient, see Chronic Disease Management Plans for details.
• Health Promotion - Select to view and maintain the health promotion entries of the selected patient, see Adding Health Promotion Intervention for details.
• Immunisations - Select to view and maintain the immunisation status of the selected patient, see Adding an Immunisation for details.
• Prevention Display - Select to view and maintain the prevention data of the selected patient.
• Select Summary Form - Select to display all summary forms, see Summary/Grid Tab for details.
• / Opens/closes the Local Guideline Index, see Creating Local Guideline Indexes for details.
• Local Reports Index, see Creating Local Guideline Indexes for details.
• Patient Reports Index, see Creating Local Guideline Indexes for details.
• Medical History Add - Select to add a medical history clinical term, see Adding a Medical History Entry for details.
• Referral Add - Select to record a referral, Adding a Referral for details.
• Add Therapy Advice - Select to open the Therapy Advice screen, record advice and print on the right hand side of a prescription form, see Non-drug Therapy Items or Advice on Prescriptions for details.
• Therapy Acute (F4) - Select to display the patient's issued and acute therapy.
• Therapy Repeat (F5) - Select to display and maintain the patient's repeat medication, see Therapy - List Repeat Masters for details.
• Electronic Test Requesting - Select to access electronic testing services, see Electronic Test Requests for details.
• / Show/Hide sensitive data (priority zero) - Select to hide or display priority zero Medical History entries on screen.
• Alerts - Flashes to alert you if anything is due or overdue on the patient selected.
• / Patient Warning - Select to view or maintain warnings for the patient selected, see Viewing a Patient Warning for details.
• View Mail for Patient - Select to display, read and process any incoming mail messages for the patient selected, see Viewing Mail for Patient for details.
• Future and Recent Appointments - Displays any future booked appointments and any past appointments in the last month. If the patient has no previous or future appointments within this time period, you are prompted that "nnnnnn has no future appointments".
• Label Trace - Shortcut to the third party Label Trace Application, also accessible from Add - External Applications - Launch - Label Trace.
• Close All, also on the Windows menu.

Menu, Keyboard users and Function keys

If you prefer to use the keyboard rather than the mouse, you can access menu options by first pressing Alt on your keyboard and then type the underlined letter in the main menu heading, for example, press Alt + A on your keyboard to open the Add menu, or Alt + C to display the Consultation menu. Then type the underlined letter (not necessarily the first letter) of the option you want, for example, B for Blood Pressure, L for Medical History.

Following the usual convention, any menu option that has a bold right pointing arrow after it means there are further choices, for example, Chronic Disease Management.

The following function keys can also be used as short-cuts:

Key	Action
F1	Help Centre
F2	List Medical History
F3	Select a patient. F3 can also be used on the READ Term Add screen to display the READ dictionary screen
F4	Lists Therapy Script. Then press F4 or Esc to display Acute Therapy Add
F5	Displays Therapy Repeats. Then press F5 or Esc for Repeat Master Add
F7	Start Consultation
Shift-F7	Close Consultation
F8	New Therapy
F9	Print/Issue and Print Prescription. This can be used anywhere and does not require a Therapy screen to be open
F10 (toggle)	View Patient Record full screen (without navigation or topic panes) or normal view
Shift F12	Patient Reports
Spacebar	To select and asterisk from a Therapy Repeat list. Pressing again removes the asterisk

Status Bar

To view the Status Bar, tick View - Status Bar. The status line at the bottom of the screen displays the following information:

• While a consultation is open, the status bar displays the person logged in, consultation type, start time and the current time. If you double click on the status bar, the Consultation Update screen displays which allows you to change the type of consultation, and the start and end times:

  

• Drug check warnings of contra-indications, interactions or drug doubling for the patient.
• Tiles displaying the current open Vision 3 screens so you can quickly switch to another one.
• At other times it displays the current status of the screen, for example, 'Displaying Deleted Records' or 'No Open consultation'.

If the Status Bar does not display, lift the whole window up by clicking on the title bar and dragging the screen upward.