# Get started as a nurse or assistant (/docs/en/get-started/for-nurses)



As a nurse or clinical assistant you record readings, document contacts, follow up on tasks and ask patients for information. Salisan has no separate nurse role. Your administrator gives you the **Member** role, the same clinical role doctors have, or a custom role on the Enterprise plan. What you can open depends on that role and on which patients you are assigned to.

## Your first week [#first-week]

1. Accept your invitation and finish your profile, then set up two-factor protection. See [Join your practice](/docs/en/get-started/join-your-practice) and [Account and security](/docs/en/get-started/account-and-security#two-factor). About 10 minutes.
2. Learn the sidebar and Home. See [Find your way around](/docs/en/get-started/find-your-way-around). About 10 minutes.
3. Ask a front desk colleague or administrator to add you to the care team of the patients you look after. Then open **Patients** to check that they appear. See [Roles and access](/docs/en/get-started/roles-and-access#care-team). About 5 minutes.
4. Record a reading with **New → Reading** in the patient bar, or press / in a visit note and choose **Vitals**. See [Clinical records](/docs/en/guides/clinical-records#add). About 10 minutes.
5. Document a contact with **Start visit** in the patient bar, write the note and sign it. Read [Saved, recorded and signed](/docs/en/get-started/saved-recorded-signed) first, then [Visits and notes](/docs/en/guides/visits#start). About 15 minutes.
6. Open **Tasks** and try **My tasks**, **My teams** and **Unassigned**. Claim a task and finish it. See [Tasks](/docs/en/guides/tasks#take). About 10 minutes.
7. Send a patient a form or ask for a reading with **Send to patient** in **Requests**, then follow up on the answer. See [Patient forms and requests](/docs/en/guides/patient-forms#send). About 10 minutes.
8. At the end of the day, open **To sign** for visits you started and have not signed. See [To sign](/docs/en/guides/to-sign#queue). About 5 minutes.

## What you can and can't do [#permissions]

With the **Member** role you can:

* Open and edit the patients on whose care team you are, and create patients. A patient you create is added to your care team.
* Read and write those patients' clinical records, including readings, and sign the visits you document.
* Read and manage calendars of colleagues in your teams.
* Send email, forms and requests to your patients.
* Create tasks, claim unassigned tasks and use templates.
* Use the Agent.

You can't:

* Open patients who are not on your care team, even when a colleague in your team treats them.
* Add anyone to a patient's care team. Front desk, administrators and owners can.
* Invite people, change roles, or change practice settings.

A custom role can give you wider patient access, for example all patients in your team. Ask your administrator. See [Roles and access](/docs/en/get-started/roles-and-access#roles).

## Keep learning [#keep-learning]

Nurses and assistants use the **Clinician essentials** course in Learn. Start with its first lesson on [the patient chart](/docs/en/learn/clinician-chart), or see the [Learn overview](/docs/en/learn/index).