My staff will not use order chron expanded view. I've tried to get them to use it but they won't. And I dont' blame them -- I don't like it either. It is too bulky and difficult to scan. It has a lot of unnecessary info that gets in the way.
Please add the following features to the standard view: the ability to sort based on nursing order category (so that orders can be grouped together by type), the ability to resort by clicking on column headers and resize columns (so that they can see all of the order detail) and have it STICK when they go to print. Currently, all sorting/resizing of columns that is done within standard view isn't maintained when you generate the pdf. Consequently my staff are still printing the Medact, which isn't accurate since it does not contain ancillary orders. It is also a barrier to our facility fully adopting web client as staff are not willing to use Order Chron to print their orders.
To make it even better:
do away with expanded view. Have a dropdown caret that they can click on to see the info that is in expanded view when needed
make it so ALL order instructions show up in standard view. Don't cut them off.
whatever formatting changes are made on the screen need to stick when the pdf is generated.
Before anyone says that printing orders is not best practice ... our staff frequently takes our patients on appointments out of the buildings and MUST print the current orders to take with them. I would think that other facilities would have a similar requirement when transferring patients out.
Have you looked at the 24 Hour Summary options for this "ticket to ride" type functionality?
Also, note that Nursing Order Category is in the Additional Info column and may be sorted.
It would also be great if there was a conversation bubble on the standard view like on the Expanded, that shows instructions are attached