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Medsurg nurses would like some sort of notification before their one hour time frame lapses for reassessing pt's pain after administering pain meds. We get the yellowish color notification after the one hour has lapsed. Is there any way to get another color notification giving a 15 minute heads up prior to? Or a possible notification any other way if possible.
A tracking board notification for medication reassessment is available on 21.06.00.
A pop up or flash at the bottom, like for mail or orders would even work. We need something.
We mulled over the options for notification of reassessment. The option of having the medication turn Orange on the MAR for overdue med response was not a good option. You would have to go into each medication's item master to indicate for the overdue med response. After a med was given, you would have to go into every patient's MAR to see if there was any med highlighted orange. we chose to use the location option for timed tasks. In Exam room table maintenance in BOTM, we created several options: Oral pain med reassessment, IV/IM pain med reassessment, gastroview, etc. Having the timer counting up and the color change on the whiteboard in POC, all nurses can see if and when the patient needs reassessed.