This would cause less confusion for providers and staff. Our dietary department runs reports and sometimes the current orders are not pulling to the bottom every time and causes an issue. It would help save a few clicks for nurses and providers so they do not have to discontinue the orders every time the diet is changed.
Any updates? Maybe create a pop-up to fire when a person is trying to place a diet order that states something like "are you sure you want to do this, diet order XXXXX is already active on said patient. Continuing with this order will discontinue the previous order."
Or when the new diet is ordered that there is a radio button to select that says discontinue previous diet or if it pulls up the current active diets and asks if it needs discontinued.
I would like the current order to display per the time it was Ordered for. We will have a diet as tolerated and then at Midnight the as tolerated order should discontinue and the NPO be the current diet order.