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Clinical messaging

Routing to a clinical role

When you need the on-call RN, you shouldn't have to know their name. Address the role, and Rounds resolves it to whoever is on call right now.

A clinician sending an urgent message often doesn't know — and shouldn't have to know — which person is on call. They know the role: "I need the on-call RN." Role-based routing lets you address a message to a clinical role, and Rounds delivers it to the right person automatically.

How to route to a role

  1. Open a channel and click into the composer

    From the chat workspace, click the channel in the list on the left, then click into the Type a message… box at the bottom.
  2. Type @ in the composer

    The same @ you use to mention a person also lists your agency's clinical roles, in their own Clinical roles section of the pop-up.
  3. Pick a role

    Choose a role — say @On-call RN. The list marks it as routing to whoever is on call, so you know it follows the schedule.
  4. Send

    Rounds resolves the role to the on-call person at that moment, notifies them directly, and renders the message so every reader sees both the role and the resolved name.
Step 2-3 — typing @ in the composer opens the autocomplete; the Clinical roles section routes to whoever is on call.
The autocomplete lists people, clinical roles and user groups — roles route to whoever is on call.

What a routed message looks like

A routed message carries a role chip@On-call RN — and, inline beside it, the person it resolved to: @On-call RN → Dana Cole. Every reader sees who the message actually landed on, not just the role that was addressed.

A routed message shows the role chip and the on-call person it resolved to.

Roles versus user groups

A clinical role is dynamic

@On-call RN resolves fresh every time, to whoever holds the on-call assignment at the moment you send. It follows the schedule.

A user group is static

@night-shift is a fixed roster — these people, until an admin edits the set. It doesn't follow the schedule.

When no one is on call

If you address a role that has no on-call coverage right now, the message still sends — but it shows a clear "no one is on call for On-call RN" warning, and the gap is recorded in the audit log. Rounds never silently misdelivers a routed message; if there's no one to route to, it tells you.