Hey Alexis, we use the St. John's Sepsis Alert here at the University of Tennessee Medical Center.
We require the nurse to contact their Clinical Nurse Specialist or Clinical Nurse Educator immediately when an alert has fired. The nurse and specialist will decide whether or not to notify a provider. (our policy is to always notify a provider unless an erroneous value was accidentally entered or if the patient should have had a "snooze" for the alert). We do not allow any actions to be done just from an alert being fired, but we are a large teaching facility: our "alert-to-orders" times are short because of easy accessibility of providers. I am required to track all alerts and actions performed due to the alert (highly recommend this!). Chadrick Sims, BSN, RN, CFRN, SCRN Sepsis and Rescue Coordinator UT Medical Center cs...@mc.utmck.edu<mailto:cs...@mc.utmck.edu> Office: (865)305-6497 Cell: (865)705-9996 Fax: (865) 305-6544 [cid:image001.png@01D20EA2.409E1B40] [cid:image004.png@01D20EA4.477BD950]
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