Brenda, First, most staff are aware that a med is ordered BID, QD or what ever. So, usually staff know that they have a med due now, even if the previous dose shows up on eMAR.
Second, you need a process for handling those "missed" doses just like you have now for the paper MAR. If staff sees that the 10PM dose wasn't documented they do their best to determine whether that dose gets circled as a missed dose or how they will get it documented according to your policy. The same is true in eMAR. If staff find a "missed" dose, they either Full Document and say "not given" or they work with their charge nurse to document that dose as given per your policy. Daniel Davis, RN -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brenda Wiley Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 2:44 PM To: MediTech Users Group Subject: [MEDITECH-L] Sites using BMV,how do you handle missed documentations? For facilities that are using BMV, how do you handle the occurances where a user from a previous shift does not document on a medication? The next shift's nurse comes on, and sees the missed documentation at the top of the eMAR, with the previous shift's administration time showing (thereby NOT showing the time due for his/her shift). For example, our BID times are 1000 and 2200. If the 2200 dose is not documented on, THAT time hangs out at the top of the eMAR, but the day shift nurse needs to see that it also is due at 1000, and would not really know that unless s/he looks at the SIG. Thanks! Brenda Wiley, RN Transylvania Community Hospital, Inc. ________________________________________________________________________ ____________ Sponsored Link Mortgage rates near 39yr lows. $420k for $1,399/mo. Calculate new payment! http://www.LowerMyBills.com/lre ====================================== All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments. The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com ______________________________________ meditech-l mailing list [email protected] http://mtusers.com/mailman/listinfo/meditech-l ====================================== All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments. The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com ______________________________________ meditech-l mailing list [email protected] http://mtusers.com/mailman/listinfo/meditech-l
