Tips on Setting Up the Clinical Work Station
SAP recommends that you re-use views, variants and layouts. If the creation of variants is well thought out, the effort required in setting up the care unit work station can be minimized For your hospital, determine which views the users require on a regular basis on a typical care unit work station or on a typical outpatient clinic/service facility work station.
The organizational units (OUs) serve as default values for the views defined for general use (“generic” views). Views defined for general use are views that are created without reference to an OU. This means that they an OU is not stored in the assigned selection variant. The OU on which the view runs is defined in the assignment to a work environment tailored for a specific OU.
Please note that the system does not check the validity of the OU, so that you can set up the clinical work station for all the OUs created in the system (tables NORG
and NBAU
). This means you can also set up the clinical work station for OUs that are still in preparation (i.e. not yet released or not yet valid).
Example
Care unit work station:
The occupancy list is required as a view in each care unit work station with a specific display assignment and functions. It is important to find out which display fields are required in the occupancy view and which functions are used. You can define a view for general use ("generic" view) based on this information. A "generic" view is a view which has a selection variant assigned to it in which none of the fields are filled except the institution and the selection date (selection variable for the system date). In addition, a layout and a corresponding function variant are specified and assigned to this “generic” view.
The nursing organizational unit is not specified based on the selection variant but rather at the work environment level. Define a separate work environment for each care unit using the care unit work station. Enter the care unit for which the view is intended in the Nursing OU
field.
Now assign the “generic” views to these work environments. In this way, you can accommodate occupancy of all care units with the one view.
Caution
Note that any changes to the “generic” view affect all care units.