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Managing Triggered Items in Care Plans

Triggered items are suggested items to add to your resident care plan. Depending on your configuration, it is possible for certain Focus, Goals, or Interventions to trigger to your care plan, based on answers to assessment questions and progress notes. Triggered items should be reviewed to determine if they are needed within the resident care plan by members of the care team. Missing items not saved to the care plan should be removed from the triggered items area.

  1. Clinical > Resident > Care Plan.  

  3. Click View Triggered Items Now.

  4. Select Focus(es), Goal(s), and Intervention(s) to include in the resident Care Plan.

  6. Click Edit for each Focus(es), Goal(s), and Intervention(s) requiring further personalization.

  7. To remove all triggered items, select View Triggered Items Now, and click Remove All.

    Note

    Facilities should have a process in place for someone to remove all remaining triggered items after the Interdisciplinary Team has completed their care plan review. Triggers are for the whole team , and on a regular basis, when completing the care plan, clean up of the triggered items is necessary.

  • There is an abbreviation next to any focus, goal, or intervention triggering from progress notes (PN),  an assessment (UDA), and MDS. Hover over the abbreviation to see the date and source of the triggering item. If enabled, you can also see PATH if items are triggered from a care pathway.

  • You can regenerate triggered items by clicking the Regenerate Triggers button within an appropriate assessment or MDS.