We are not a children's hospital, however, we had the same questions for any liquids or multi dosing units when setting these up in the PHA dictionaries in preparation for BMV. We toyed with this idea as well, but when we spoke with Meditech about it, they recommended that we NOT do this. This was their response:
"After further discussion with folks at MEDITECH, it was found that doing so would not be beneficial. Essentially this direction would exchange one message for another message which is not the intended result. Building these additional entries would actually subvert the dose checking that occurs now." We are a little concerned about the messaging that does occur, and how it does not really verify that the correct dose has been scanned, only that the dose scanned does not match the Order Size in PHA. We have ultimately decided that the best way to verify the dose is to set the Order Size in PHA to 0 on these types of medications, which will prompt the nurse to adjust dose and enter the amount that she is getting ready to administer to the patient. Cindi Lockhart Clinical Application Specialist PHA/POM/EMR/PCM Citizens Memorial Hospital _____ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pivonka, Michelle Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 3:13 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [MEDITECH-L] BMV at children's hospitals/peds? Dear folks out in "L" land: We are Magic 5.5 SR1 and are in the beginning phases of setting up BMV. Are there any children's hospitals or pediatric units doing BMV? How are you handling the weight based dosing/different concentrations? Are you using the alt NDC numbers, or creating all new entries in the drug dictionary for each of the concentrations? Thanks in advance for your help! Michelle Michelle Pivonka, RN Systems Analyst Information Services Sinai Health System (773) 257-6020 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.sinai.org "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." Sir Winston Churchill The information contained in this e-mail, including any attachments,is legally privileged and confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use or dissemination of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately notify us by telephone 417-328-6526 and delete this message from your system. Even though this e-mail and any attachments are believed to be free of any virus or other defect that might affect any computer system into which it is received and opened, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that it is virus free, and no responsibility is accepted by Citizens Memorial Hospital for any loss or damage arising in any way from its use.
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