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Tim: We do not use the worklist, but why not build a valid direction for Q3-4 With Feeds and then PHA can attach it if the order is written that way. I agree that it would be nice to have all active interventions appear on the worklist, but if your facility is like all the ones I have worked at, that worklist would be long. I chose a patient at random and that patient has 39 active interventions, 90% without valid directions, either no directions or .directions. Interventions Sts Frequency Doc Src D C/N KI Prt ~~~~~ PATIENT RIGHTS ~~~~~ -CODE STATUS - FULL CODE L A 6h CP DOCTOR'S ORDER DATE: -Communication Devices A CP * ~~~~~ DAILY / SHIFT DOCUMENTATION ~~~~~ -Plan of Care reviewed A QS 3h CP -Pain, Evaluation and A .TIMELY RE-EVAL*** CP -Education, Patient/S.O. A CP -Physician notification A CP -Physician Critical Result A CP -Shift/Patient Evaluation A QSHIFT 3h CP -Shift/Summary A QSHIFT 5h CP -Dinner Intake A HS 16h CP ~~~~~ CLINICAL MEASUREMENT ~~~~~ -PCA, Pump cleared A QSHIFT CP ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- As you know only the interventions listed above with the valid directions appear on the worklist. The worklist is suppose to be a tool to help the caregiver plan their day and remind them to provide certain care/treatments/follow doctors orders, etc. Without a valid direction, as you stated, it could be added to the bottom of the worklist, but for my facility, you would have 39 interventions on that one patient, including the 3 Admit Assessments (Meds,Hx and Assessment), that almost no-one remembers to change the status to complete and they are still on the Process Intervention Screen....from 3days ago... ~~~~~ ASSESSMENT ~~~~~ -PLAN OF CARE, Initialized A 3d AS -ER Triage Assessment A 3d AS -ADMISSION, Patient Assessment A 3d AS -ADMISSION, History A 3d AS -ADMISSION, Home Medications A 3d AS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- I know education is the answer, but no matter how many times we teach the staff or remind them to clean up the patient's care plan and thus the PI screen would be shorter and easier to document on their patients, it just does not get done...The staff do not get the big picture for how it all works and could work better. Let us all know if you come up with a good work around for this issue. Good Luck, -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Witt, Sharon L. Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 12:56 PM To: Brady, Tim; [email protected] Subject: RE: [MEDITECH-L] NUR Worklist and .SIG Orders All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments. The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com ====================================== I think the fix for this is in 5.5, sr2. We have this in test and the prns appear at the bottom of the worklist. Do your nurses print the worklist? Ours have and they were the ones to notice that while the room # appears on the worklist when viewing, they don't print. Instead the account # prints. Of course, Meditech states it is working as designed and there are no plans on changing it. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brady, Tim Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 2:36 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [MEDITECH-L] NUR Worklist and .SIG Orders All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments. The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com ====================================== Our nurses love the worklist, but we are ready to turn it off! We have several medication orders which do not have specific times and thus do not appear on the nursing worklist. An example of such an order is: (Q3-4 With Feeds). Has anyone out there had any luck getting these type of orders to appear on the worklist? I understand that it can not appear with times, but even if it could just be listed at the end, it would be a cue for the nurse to look at the MAR. Any thoughts/suggestions are appreciated! Tim Brady Director of Information Systems Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital (410)578-2676 _______________________________________________ meditech-l mailing list [email protected] http://mtusers.com/mailman/listinfo/meditech-l _______________________________________________ meditech-l mailing list [email protected] http://mtusers.com/mailman/listinfo/meditech-l ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by Sophos and MIMEsweeper for the presence of computer viruses. ********************************************************************** _______________________________________________ meditech-l mailing list [email protected] http://mtusers.com/mailman/listinfo/meditech-l
