Last Dose Date/Time automatically pull to D/C meds list
It is a TJC requirement for the last dose date/time to be listed on the discharge med list. We are not getting buy-in from providers when it comes to entering the last date/time of med administration when performing D/C med rec/e-scribing.
Utilize MediSpan Generic Product ID for Bedside Medication Verification
Currently, bedside medication verification is limited to NDC screening that only looks at a local, site-specific table of NDC's to match before administration. This is troublesome for the following reasons: Each site has to manually maintain NDC's...
RX Entry without dc Med Rec poses med error risks with no safeguards
Awhile ago TruBridge changed the functionality of med rec to allow physicians to escribe meds before a discharge med rec was performed. This change was helpful for a select few cases but poses some medication error risks. This change allows nursin...
I think it would beneficial to have an option for providers to "hold" an active order instead of discontinuing it or having nursing omit it daily on the MAR. That way it would be less of a chance of forgetting to continue it at a later date or upo...
Med Reconciliation should be pulled to Patient Transfer Form
When the Med Rec on discharge is completed, the meds that pull to the Patient Transfer Form in Flow Charts should reflect that list. Instead, the PTF pulls all active pharmacy orders which is confusing to the receiving facility and is NOT the actu...
When an order set it being built, need to be able to add a medication with weight based dosing, for both pediatrics and adults, and have the system be able to calculate the dose based on the weight that is in the system.
Currently nurses can stop, complete, or titrate IV orders. Could it be done to have an option "Continued upon transfer" that pulls dose/rate information from the last titration if there was one. The nurses don't like to chart "completed" or "pause...
I have been asked several times about providing a report that shows that medication reassessment is being completed. I can track this if they are using the flowchart for reassessment(albeit very cumbersome). It would be great if there was a report...
Our facility is trying to minimize duplicate PRN orders. For example, had a patient today with APAP 500mg PRNq4 pain scale 1-3, and also an order for IBU 400 PRN q6 pain scale 1-3. Unless a nurse or pharmacist goes into each med within the pharmac...
Patient Own Medication selection when adding meds to Order sets
Building a Hospice Order set, would like to be able to select that the medications are Patient's Own Medications from Pharmacy so that the meds populate and are administered from the MAR, but no charges drop for them.