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Also, the vital sign documentation occurs on the same screen with queries that only nurses are permitted to answer. It is not a CDS, so you can't put attributes on the queries to prevent the CNA's from documenting on these queries. This gives you two choices-give only the nurses access to this screen and they will have to document all transfusion vitals or give the nurses and CNA's access and tell the CNA's not to document on the nurse only queries. Kim Frick, RN Project Coordinator Licking Memorial Health Systems Phone: 740-348-4114 Fax: 740-348-4769 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.LMHealth.org -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kenny Whiteside Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 9:30 AM To: Karen S. Baylor; Darla Ownbey; MEDITECH-L (E-mail) Subject: RE: [MEDITECH-L] Transfusion Record All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments. The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com ====================================== The issues that we have submitted to Meditech to address are: 1) Method to require or ensure that nurses have reviewed any "Special Instructions" attached to the blood product. 2) Ability to remove or change the function of the "Reactions" button. This currently launches the transfusion reactions routine that the pathologist uses to document follow-up of potential transfusion reactions. NOT something we want our nurses accessing! 3) Next Due vital signs that displays on the status board is currently calculated based on the time the last set was documented. So if the nurse is ten minutes late documenting a set of vitals, the system will show the next set as being due ten minutes later than it is actually due. These times need to be calculated from the start time of infusion... not the last time documented. 4) Vital Signs taken via the TAR (Transfusion Administration Routine) are attached to any unit of blood currently infusing. But what about baseline vitals taken immediately prior to starting or vitals taken one hour after completion? We need a parameter before/after the start/stop time of a blood product that would attach vitals that during that defined period of time. 5) No "Next Vitals Due" if multiple units infusing. This is probably not a huge deal... but it would be nice to see the next time vitals are due for ANY unit infusing. Otherwise we are forcing nurses to manually track when they need to do this when they have multiple units infusing. Hope this helps, Kenny Whiteside Kenny Whiteside RN, BSN Patient Care Information Systems Catawba Valley Medical Center 810 Fairgrove Church Road Hickory, NC 28602 [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> "Baylor, Karen S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08/28/2006 9:52:29 AM >>> All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments. The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com ====================================== We are just beginning to look at this. What are the issues that you found? Any help is appreciated. Karen S. Baylor, RN, MS Nursing Information Systems Analyst 501 South Union Avenue Havre de Grace, MD 21078-0340 phone: 443-843-5512 "Your mind is like a parachute, unless it is open it will not work."...author unknown. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Darla Ownbey Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 3:02 PM To: MEDITECH-L (E-mail) Subject: [MEDITECH-L] Transfusion Record All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments. The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com ====================================== We have been testing the transfusion record and have a number of concerns. Is anyone using the record in a live environment? We are Magic 5.5 SR3. Thanks in advance. Darla J. Ownbey, RN BSN Clinical Systems Analyst Johnson Memorial Hospital 1125 W. Jefferson St. P.O. Box 549 Franklin, IN 46131 317-346-3919 _______________________________________________ meditech-l mailing list [email protected] http://mtusers.com/mailman/listinfo/meditech-l _______________________________________________ meditech-l mailing list [email protected] http://mtusers.com/mailman/listinfo/meditech-l _______________________________________________ meditech-l mailing list [email protected] http://mtusers.com/mailman/listinfo/meditech-l _______________________________________________ meditech-l mailing list [email protected] http://mtusers.com/mailman/listinfo/meditech-l
