I have discovered how to retrieve the chart and so the nurses information but this issue has a second implication. The nurse opens the chart, selects "New Note" and puts in the vitals. If I decide - after s/he has done this - that I want to use another visit as a stepping off point, I think I lose the vitals again. The nurse doesn't know what visit I want to use and I don't know until I get into the room and find out that it might be the same ol' thing. I'm thinking that the nurse needs to do the vitals on a sticky note and then let me enter them later. (I tell patients that I used to be a doctor and now I am a typist or data entry clerk)
Also, the vital sign notes carry over from appointment to appointment so if the nurse checks the BP more than once and records it, the same note comes up the next visit - yikes!
