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Susan, I don't have all the answers when it comes to Meditech's Acuity, but I do at least know where to look, thanks to the kind people who answered me. I will give you a brief rundown of what I was told. There are two parts to setting up Meditech's Acuity system; Interventions and Parameters. INTERVENTIONS Meditech's Acuity system is tied to the intervention. On each intervention, on page two in the intervention dictionary, you will find three prompts beside the word STANDARD. The labels for these prompts are above; Acuity -Units- Retro & Prosp and then Min Nurse Type (skip Path Cost). If you put your cursor in each of these prompts and press <SHIFT F8> you can read the online documentation for each. I am still trying to figure out the real difference between Retrospective and Prospective units. As with CDSs, you can assign different acuity units for different locations. In addition to filling in these three prompts, each intervention must have a frequency (direction). The free text (.) frequencies don't work. They must be from the Directions dictionary and have a time tied to them. I have been told that you can have frequencies such as "per protocol", "continuous", etc. if you design them correctly. NUR PARAMETERS Page 1 Acuity Tracking- you will need to set Editing Cut-Off Date if not already set. Acuity Queries- You will need to make 4 new queries; Projected Units, Projected Hours, Documented Units and Documented Hours. These queries will hold the data and you will need to select which of these you want to display in the two places that patient acuity displays-Process Interventions (upper right corner below patient's Age/Sex) and Status Board (if you design it in). It was suggested to me that Projected Hours would be the best one to use. Acuity Units- You will need to decide how many units you want in an hour. It was suggested to use 60 so that each unit equals one minute of time. You can set different locations to have different acuity units per hour. Page 3 Report parameters. I could use more information on how to set these up. I was told that to fully utilize the reports, you will need to use staffing and scheduling in addition to acuity. You can also find a tutorial on Meditech's website that was somewhat helpful. I haven't found any Knowledge Base articles. I would appreciate any one willing to add information to this. What have I left out, what problems have you had, how did you solve them, etc. Sandy -----Original Message----- From: Davis, Susan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 3:45 PM To: Kendrick, Sandy Subject: RE: [MEDITECH-L] Acuity and Staffing and Scheduling Sandy, Please post you response. Thanks, Susan Davis Clinical Specialist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Beeper 270.762.1444 572 Phone 270.762.1257 Fax 270.762.1332 This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any other use of the E-Mail by you is prohibited. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kendrick, Sandy Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 4:27 PM To: Tara Temsik; [email protected] Subject: RE: [MEDITECH-L] Acuity and Staffing and Scheduling All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments. The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com ====================================== Visit us on the web at <http://www.murrayhospital.org> NOTICE: This message originates from Murray-Calloway County Hospital (MCCH) and contains information that may be confidential or privileged and is intended only for the individuals or the entity named above. It is prohibited for anyone else to disclose, copy, distribute or use the contents of this message. This message may not be copied or distributed without this disclaimer. All personal messages express views solely of the sender, which are not to be attributed to MCCH. If you received this message in error, please notify us immediately at [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ meditech-l mailing list [email protected] http://mtusers.com/mailman/listinfo/meditech-l
