Why

Professionals can collaborate with patients to create comprehensive care plans at any stage of their healthcare journey. However, there are instances where specific sections of a care plan need to be restricted to professional edits only. 

This is particularly important for documenting decisions made about someone's care, such as an end-of-life plan or digital consent forms, where accuracy must be maintained without unintentional modifications by patients, their carers, or professionals outside of the organisation where the care plan originates. 

What 

Care plan templates can include sections that are exclusively editable by team professionals. These sections in a care plan template are clearly marked with a label stating ‘Only professionals can edit this section’. They are visually distinct and have different backgrounds, which differentiates them from the sections the patient can edit. 

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Who Can Edit: Only institutional professionals. 

Who Cannot Edit: Carers, patients, and individual professionals. 

How

When creating or amending a current care plan template, the team can identify sections of the plan that team professionals can exclusively edit, the team can do this in the care plan request form.

Adding the care plan template 

Once configured, the care plan will be added to the team's PKB live site. Professionals can then start adding and completing these templates in a patient record at any point during the patient’s healthcare journey.

Patients, carers, and individual professionals cannot edit anything between the opening and closing fieldset tags in the care plan template. Only team professionals can edit these sections.

This ensures that critical sections remain unchanged unless updated by a team professional.

Example care plan

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Care plan in edit mode

 

 

Locking a care plan

Exclusively editing a care plan section gets built into the HTML of a care plan when the template is created in PKB. It prevents the patient from editing the section highlighted to be professional-only editable.

PKB care plans also have a feature where a professional can lock the care plan after it has been added to the patient's PKB record. An example of this would be a consent care plan; when it has been completed (all information needed has been added), the professional has the ability to lock the care plan via the UI to prevent further editing by the patient.

How

When viewing a care plan in a patient’s record, professionals can lock the plan by clicking ‘Lock’. When a plan is locked, patients and carers are notified by email and can no longer edit the plan. Plans can be unlocked by any professional by clicking ‘Unlock’ when viewing the plan.