This is follow-up on my original post (see below) to the L-List. Sorry I'm so late getting back to folks on this ... we've had our hands full trying to straighten all this out!!
Since my post on this subject to the L-List, we have had to completely change how orders are entered ... as in they are NOT!! PHA was spending up to 6 hours once they came in in the morning correcting nursing's mistakes on order entry. What we have gone to is to have nurses keep a copy of the written medication order with them thru the night shift (when PHA is not in house) and to use this as a reminder of when new meds are due. When a med is due, they use Quick Charge/Document to Enter/Document that one time dose. We have removed EO and EM from their verb strips. The wisdom of folks on the L-list is really showing, since the vast majority of the posts received indicate that nurses just cannot do order entry accurately. Our pharmacy realized it takes MONTHS to train a pharmacy tech (who does nothing but enter orders all the time) to do this accurately and effectively. To expect nursing, who does it only occasionally to do it well with just one training course really is unreasonable. My recommendation to others about to embark on this is to either utilize a virtual pharmacy order entry (we'll probably eventually go this route) or to use the method we're currently doing. Thanks everyone!! Brenda > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Brenda Wiley > Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 1:29 PM > To: MediTech Users Group > Subject: [MEDITECH-L] For BMV sites w/o 24 PHA, who > enters medication > orders? > > For sites that are LIVE w/ BMV and who do not have > 24 > in house pharmacy, who enters your after hours > medication orders into your users' eMAR's? > > If nursing is doing it, what sort of training did > you > do for nursing. How is their overall accuracy? > > We have been LIVE w/ BMV for almost 3 weeks, > included > PHA order entry as part of training, but right now, > nursing has a horrible track record of order entry > accuracy! Any suggestions would be greatly > appreciated. > > Brenda Wiley, RN > Transylvania Community Hospital, Inc. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Any questions? Get answers on any topic at www.Answers.yahoo.com. Try it now. ====================================== 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
