This tutorial goes over how to enable the Accidents & Medication Only feature. Once enabled, you can add accidents at home and in the setting, incident forms, and medication. The following tutorials will guide you through adding these, once this feature is enabled:

If you want to enable the whole Care Diary feature, which includes these and other entry types, then this tutorial will show you how.

Only Managers will be able to enable this feature using the browser version of Tapestry.

To enable the Accidents & Medication Only feature, go to Configuration > Features.

Once in Features, you will find the Accidents Only feature near the top. By default, this will be red, indicating it is not enabled on your account yet. To enable it, click on the green Enable button to its right.

You will now see Accidents & Medication as a menu option on the left side of the screen.

Once enabled, the heading in the Features section appears green, and you will find a shortcut to quickly access the Accident &  Medication  Settings and the Relative Permissions concerning the feature.

Please note: the Relative Permissions option will only appear if Accidents are enabled for relatives via Accident settings.

screenshot from Tapestry showing the settings and user permissions button for the accidents and medication feature

When accessing the Accident & Medication Settings section you have a few general options:

  • Enabling the feature for relatives. If you do not have this ticked relatives will be unable to access the feature or view any of their child’s accident, incident or medication forms. 
  • Allowing relatives to sign off accidents, incident, and medication from from their own device. If you tick this option you can choose whether you’d like them to digitally sign the forms or simply add a quick sign-off confirmation.

If you make any changes, remember to Save.

screenshot from Tapestry showing the general settings options for the accidents and medication features

If you access the Relative Permissions section, you will be able to review what relatives can or cannot do regarding an accident. If you wish to change any of the permissions from permitted to not permitted, or vice versa, click on Edit by the corresponding permission. You will then be able to change the default for all or apply different permissions to different users. Remember to Save any changes.

Likewise, you can review the permissions at any point directly from the Features section, or by going to Configuration > Relatives > Relative User Permissions > Accidents & Medication

Staff user permissions can also be accessed from Configuration > Staff > Staff User Permissions > Accidents & Medication. You have the below options relating to accidents, incidents, and medication.

Just as with relative permissions, you can set the permissions for all staff to Permitted or Not Permitted and you can also set different permissions for individual users by selecting Edit to change permissions for those individual users.

For a more detailed look at setting user permissions on Tapestry please take a look at this tutorial.

This is how you can enable the Accidents & Medication feature outside the Care Diary feature, which might not be applicable for your setting. Once enabled, you can start adding accident and medication forms.

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