Dana Pontious, RN Nursing Analyst Elk Regional Health Center St Marys, PA 15857 814 788-8682 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------- The information contained in this e-mail is private and confidential and is intended only for the person or entity to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, please note that any review, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this e-mail is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender of the error and thereafter delete this e-mail. -----Original Message----- From: Sharon Phelps [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 12:08 PM To: Dana Pfingstler Subject: Re: [MEDITECH-L] (no subject) Hi Dana, When we picked this problem apart, we realized we had a "co-checking" policy, not a "co-signing" policy. Before EMAR, the nursing staff would indeed co-check the insulin (usually in a med room or at a cart, not necessarily at the patient bedside) but we did not have the 2nd nurse sign the paper MAR. So, we follow the same guidelines now. We "co-check" the insulin but do not require a co-signature. If someone wants to do an audit, obviously doing a co-check without a co-signature means you have to rely upon your staff to follow policy. But, the very short amount of time that the co-sign box remains on the screen when using EMAR effectively prevents us from being able to do a co-sign with insulin. Sharon Phelps, RN-BC Clinical Analyst West Park Hospital Cody, WY ----- Original Message ----- From: Dana <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Pfingstler To: Meditech L <mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 12:36 PM Subject: [MEDITECH-L] (no subject) Question for BMV user r/t Co-sign function Do you use a cosigner when given medications, ex insulin? If you do, how are you using the co-signer. From what I can see with the MAR, the co signer is used at administration, but our nurses prefer to have a co signer when the med is actually drawn up in the syringe. This is causing us a lot of grief, as it now requires 2 nurses to be in the med room when med is drawn, as well as at administration to actually enter their ID and Password. How are you handling co-signers? Thanks, Dana Pontious, RN Nursing Analyst Elk Regional Health Center St Marys, PA 15857 814 788-8682 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------- The information contained in this e-mail is private and confidential and is intended only for the person or entity to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, please note that any review, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this e-mail is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender of the error and thereafter delete this e-mail.
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