Incident Reporting

How to utilize the Incidents tab in Alleva to record incidents including medication errors, exposures, or any other occurrence that needs to be documented and/or reported.

Incident Type is a customizable dropdown controlled in System Settings > Master Drop-Downs. This list could include things like:

  • Allergy exposures
  • Medication observation errors
  • Operational incidents
  • Aggression and violence


On the Incidents page there is a list of all incidents in the selected date range. You can search by description or client.




In order to see more detailed information about the incident, click the eye icon under "Actions". A summary of the incident will include important information like incident type, location, clients involved, staff involved, etc..

 

How to document an incident:

  1. Click "+Add New" in the upper right corner on the Incidents page.

  2. Enter in all necessary fields including date and time of incident, criticality, type of incident, clients involved, staff involved, etc..
    NOTE: Not all fields are required to save the incident. It is up to your team to decide which fields to utilize out of what is available.

  3. Enter a description of the incident. If you would like to use templates incident reports, you can add custom templates via the "Add Clinical Terms" button in the description, then select the appropriate template. Templates are created in System Settings > Templates.


4. Enter information in any additional fields as necessary and add a reviewer if needed. Then save and sign to complete the incident report.

TIP: You can assign a reviewer when finishing the incident report. This will push the incident report to their "Review Screen" in Alleva for them to review and sign off on.



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