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Mike, You are correct in everything you mentioned (we went all thru this too!). Yes, we are all private rooms. The purpose for scanning is purely to capture charges and to make the eMAR complete (if we used paper charting for times during isolation the eMAR would interpret that as missed doses). And, when combined w/ the nurse verbally verifying the patient's identity, it does provide safety with the right dose, right drug, right time, right route portions of the 5 rights. Additionally, once we are up and LIVE w/ BMV, the MD's will become accustomed to looking in PCI for all medication documentation. We do not have separate rooms JUST for isolation ... otherwise Rob's suggestion would be a good one (Rob ... how do you handle cases where isolation is initiated several days into a patient's hospital stay .... do you then move the patient to a designated isolation room?) Brenda (PS ... glad you like the name of our hospital <grin!> Whenever our casemanagers are calling out of town hospitals on Halloween, the folks on the other end often think it is a crank call!!) --- "Cottle, Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would have a problem with the door method. > > First, I would assume that all your rooms are > private otherwise you > would have more than one barcode on your doors. > > I would then be concerned on how rigorously the > barcodes are being > removed and added to the doors. > > I would also be concerned about actual value that > this process provides. > It can't really be said to provide anything to > patient safety since the > patient is on the other side of the door when the > scanning is done. I > suppose it might help with charge capture. > > However, so that this message doesn't sound overly > critical, I really > like the name of your hospital! Blah, blah. > > Mike Cottle > > Sumter Regional Hospital > > 100 Wheatley Drive > > Americus, GA 31709 > > > > (229) 931-1380 IT Dept. > > (229) 931-1309 IT Fax > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Brenda Wiley > Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 3:51 PM > To: Jo Boyce; [email protected]; > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [MEDITECH-L] How do you handle > Isolation issues with COWs > > All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML > will be converted to > attachments. The meditech-l web site is > MTUsers.com > ====================================== > > We are in the testing stages of BMV, w/ plans to go > LIVE in fall. Right now what we're thinking about > is > having the barcode holding the patient > identification > on the outside of the door where the patient's name > is. > > All scanning of meds would occur outside the room, > including scanning the barcode w/ the patient > identifier. Then the nurse will do the 'manual' > check > we are currently doing now w/ paper MAR's asking the > patient to state their name and DOB before s/he > gives > the patient the medications. > > I'd sure be open to other ideas. > > Brenda Wiley, RN > Transylvania Community Hospital, Inc. > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ meditech-l mailing list [email protected] http://mtusers.com/mailman/listinfo/meditech-l
