Sharon,
The assessment is actually attached to the drug. At our hospital, we
added several more queries, including the location of the pain, and one
that asked if the pain should be re-assessed. This has a yes/no query
with a comment. If the nurse answers Yes, they enter the time to
re-assess in the comment field, and that data flows to the status board.
I've attached an example so you can see what I mean.
Betty Hite
Clinical Coordinator, IS
Augusta Medical Center
540-332-4884
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Subject: [MEDITECH-L] time link from EMAR to Status Board?
Apologies up front - I'm the user, not the analyst, in this scenario.
Because I'm not sure how this is set up, I can't be too specific.
When I am using EMAR to pass meds, and I give an analgesic, the system
will pop up a query, asking me for the patient's pain level (0-10). I
must answer that query in order to complete my med administration
documentation process.
Given that (in my little pea brain) this pop up must be a query on a
CDS, and must be attached to an intervention, is it possible to make the
filing of this query/CDS/intervention somehow create a message on the
status board that would cue the nurse to complete another intervention
(the pain monitor) within one hour? And if that's not possible, have any
of you come up with a way to remind nurses to document a reassessment of
pain, following the administration of an analgesic?
I thought I asked this question last week, but don't remember seeing it
post. Sharon
DATE: 01/03/07 @ 1615 MIS Database
PAGE 1
USER: MIS.BCH Assessment Dictionary
Screens
Code: PAIN/FEVER2
View Med Administration
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Side ( ) Left ( ) Right ( ) Bilateral
( ) Other
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Digit ( ) First ( ) Second ( ) Third ( )
Fourth ( ) Fifth
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Location ( ) Abdomen ( ) Elbow ( )
Genital ( ) Knee ( ) Rectal
( ) Ankle ( ) Eye ( ) Hand
( ) Leg ( ) Sacrum
( ) Arm ( ) Face ( ) Head
( ) Neck ( ) Shoulder
( ) Back ( ) Finger ( ) Heel
( ) Pelvic ( ) Thigh
( ) Calf ( ) Flank ( ) Hip
( ) Perineum ( ) Toe
( ) Chest ( ) Foot ( ) Jaw
( ) Penis ( ) Wrist
( ) Ear ( ) Generalized ( ) Other
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Pain Intensity ( ) 0 ( ) 1 ( ) 2 ( ) 3 ( ) 4 ( )
5 ( ) Unable to Verbalize ( ) Asleep
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Medication ( ) Med Given ( ) Pre-med prior to
Activity
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Re-evaluation of Pain Needed (ent... ( ) Yes ( ) No ( ) Enter Comment
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Temperature (°C) < > [25.0 - 45.0] (36.0 -
38.0 °C)
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