The Pastoral Overview screen gives you a bird's eye view of pastoral notes that have been submitted to your student records about your students over any time period. This screen is the perfect go-to screen for a quick review of all activitty has taken place on the pastoral notes front for any group of students. . .
A star award to Ujith Perera of Immannuel College in Adelaide for the overview screen concept that is going to benefit all schools throughout the world using REACH.
Viewing a map of all pastoral records submitted for any period of time for any student or group of students is made simple with the Pastoral Overview screen. This is an ideal screen for staff who might want to look at a week's view for their student group or for staff returning from a few days off work to quickly see what activity has taken place on the pastoral front.
To access the Pastoral Overview screen go to Pastoral Management menu > Pastoral Overview
Use the viewing filters to set the overview screen to display whatever group of students you need. Like all of your REACH dashboard screens, your preset default filters will be applied to the Pastoral Overview screen.
View all, view some or view a single pastoral category. Filter your view to suit you need.
The default view date range is automatically set for the current week but you can set the date range for your view for whatever you need to see.
Search for any individual student easily using the Search bar.
Pastoral records are identified with a colour coded icon with shortcode to help you quicky identify the cardinality (positive, neutral, negative) of the record and also the pastoral category of the note submitted. Click the icon to see basic details or to access the pastoral note directly.
Download the Pastoral Overview screen to spreadsheet easily with the quick access download button.
Medical, Medications and Wellbeing note categories can also be selected for viewing in the Pastoral Overview screen for users who have visibility access for these note categories in their accessibility settings.
We've been taking feedback and made some enhancements to the Medications extension module with the following updates or new feartures
If you do not know how the Medications module works then you can click here to see Medications Module User Guide.
! REACH Medications is an Extension Module that requires an additional subscription fee of $1.50 per student per annum (min $250 per portal).
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OTC time adjust
Editing or adjusting the time that an OTC medication is being administered is a new feature added to the OTC administering screen.
The "time" field is added to the administering details panel and system administrators can decide which staff have the ability to adjust time when administering OTC medications.
Control WHO can edit time
System administrators can determine "who" has permission to adjust times in the administering panel in the Accessibilioty settings (Medical) of each user or group of users.
Pause or Expire scheduled medications
An Actions button has been added to the Scheduled Medications dashboard that allows you to either:
Pause a medication for a period of time.
Pause will prevent the scheduled medication from displaying on the Scheduled Medications dashboard until the expiry of the pause setting.
Expire a scheduled medication
Ceasing a medication will update the expiry date of the medication to the current date so that the scheduled medication will no longer appear on the Scheduled Medications dashboard.
Medication Contraindications
A contraindication is a condition or factor that serves as a reason to withhold a certain medical treatment due to the harm that it would cause the patient.
Adding Contraindications when creating medicines
When creating a medication in REACH you can now create user defined contraindications that will generate caution alerts or prevention when administering a medication to a student.
Example 1 Panadol will contraindicate with itself if attempting to be administered < 4hrs apart.
Example 2 Paracetamol may contraindicate with some cold & cough mixtures which have Paracetamol as an ingredient.
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Contraindication settings
Contraindications are a relationship that is set between two medications or for a medication against itself for administering, dosage or time controls.
A Contraindications message will be displayed when the contraindication rule is triggered. Relative contraindications can be set to deliver a caution message (soft restriction) whilst Absolute contraindications can be set to prevent a medication from being administered (hard restriction)....
How to Add Contraindications
When adding or editing a medication click the Add button in the Contraindications section at the bottom of the medicing profile.
- Select the medication you want to set as the contraindication
- Set the Rule Time for the contraindication. This rule works with the logic "if < x hours then" implement the restriction set in (3)
- Set the Restriction method (Hard or Soft).
- a Hard restriction will prevent the intended dosage from occurring
- a Soft restriction will provide a caution or warning alert only and will not prevent the intended dosage from occurring
- Set the Description. Describe why the contraindication exists or a description of your Rule.
- Set the Message. This is the message that will be provided to the user that is attempting to administer the medication to the student.
The popular and powerful sticky notes feature gets some additional skills.
If you do not know how Sticky Notes works then click here to see the Quickguide to using Sticky Notes or see below for the details of the updated features.
1. Create Bulk Sticky Notes
You can now create a bulk General Sticky Note from the header bar of your REACH screen using the Sticky Note Icon. Simply select multiple students in the Sticky Note selection field and the note will be applied to all selected students.
.2. Create default Sticky Notes for a Leave Type
You can already create a sticky note for a specific leave item in the edit screen of the student's leave event. Now you can also create a default Sticky Note that will automatically generate whenever a student requests a particular leave type.
A default Sticky Note will automatically be applied to any student that requests the Leave Type...
- In the Leave Type Configuration screen ass a Sticky note in the General Settings to generate a default sticky note every time the leave type is used
Go to System Configuration > Leave Types > General Setting for a Leave Type
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3. Control who can create or delete sticky notes
You can now control which users have permission to create or delete sticky notes in the Accessibility profile of your user accounts. Using your User Access Control features in REACH you can set this permission for all users in a Role Type or you can set it individually in the users individual Accessibility settings.
If you do not know how Sticky Notes works then click here to see the Quickguide to using Sticky Notes or see below for the details of the updated features.