Review Daily Care as a Nurse

Some Daily Care records need a Nurse to look at them. This happens when:

• a concern was recorded
• the entry was late
• someone asked for a correction
• follow-up is still open

This is Nurse review. It is not the same as approving a formal correction. Formal correction approval stays with Clinical governance.

• You must be signed into Care Portal as a Nurse, with your own PIN.
• You cannot review a record that you wrote yourself. Another nurse must do that.
• If a resident is unwell now, go to the resident first. The screen can wait.

1. Open Care Portal on the workplace device.
2. Select Confirm workplace location.
3. Select your name and enter your Care Portal PIN.
4. Open Needs review.
5. You will see only records that still need a nurse look. Ordinary completed care is not in this list.
6. Tap the record you want to review.
7. Read the resident name, room, time, care activity and outcome slowly.

The page title is Review Daily Care.

1. Read any concern note or late-entry reason.
2. If you need the full history, select Record history.
3. Choose one action:

• Mark reviewed — you have read it and no extra follow-up is needed from this review.
• Follow-up required — something still needs to be done.

1. If you choose Follow-up required, write a note. Say what must happen next, in simple words.
2. A note is optional for Mark reviewed, but a short note is still helpful.
3. Select Confirm review decision.
4. Wait for the confirmation. Do not tap again.

The reminder on the screen is important: if the resident needs an incident, a task, or a nursing record, you create those separately. Nurse review does not create them for you.

Nurse review does not:

• change the original Daily Care record
• delete the record
• message anyone for you
• create an incident
• create a clinical task
• approve or refuse a formal correction

If the record shows Awaiting Clinical governance approval, leave the correction decision. That is not a Nurse Care Portal action.

The screen will say that another nurse must complete the review. That is correct. Do not ask a Healthcare Assistant to “just press it”. Find another nurse, or tell the Clinical Manager.

Select Lock / Switch staff before you put the tablet down.