| DESCRIPTION OF ENHANCEMENTS |
Special Instructions/Other Print Info
for IV).
Special Instructions and Other Print Info may also be entered
and/or edited from within Inpatient Medications V. 5.0 order entry
options.
Prior to this enhancement, Inpatient Medications maximum character
length for Special Instructions was 180 characters and for Other Print
Info the maximum length was 60 characters. This enhancement resolves
Patient Safety Issues PSPO 42, 1466 / Remedy Ticket HD336419
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- Comment lengths between CPRS and Pharmacy.
No Allergy Assessment
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The No Allergy Assessment enhancement provides an interactive alert to the
pharmacist in Inpatient Medications V. 5.0 when no allergy assessment is
on file for the patient, and a method for the pharmacist to enter an
allergy assessment after receiving the alert. A pharmacy intervention
is automatically created if the pharmacist chooses to not enter an
assessment.
With this enhancement, Special Instructions and Other Print Info have been
The No Allergy Assessment functionality will be available at the
following options:
Delete Orders [PSJI DELETE ORDER]
Inpatient Order Entry [PSJ OE]
Non-Verified/Pending Orders [PSJU VBW]
Order Entry [PSJU NE]
Order Entry (IV) [PSJI ORDER]
Profile (IV) [PSJI PROFILE]
modified to support an unlimited amount of text. The existing
When a patient with no allergy assessment is selected from one of the
affected options, the following message will be displayed to the
pharmacist:
"NO ALLERGY ASSESSMENT exists for this patient! Would you like to enter
one now?"
- If the pharmacist enters 'YES' at this prompt, they are prompted
for allergy information.
functionality that copies the provider comments from the Computerized
- If the pharmacist enters 'NO' at this prompt, a pharmacist intervention
is created, with a type of 'NO ALLERGY ASSESSMENT'. The pharmacist is
then prompted for Provider and Recommendation. A new Recommendation,
'UNABLE TO ASSESS', has been created specifically for this type of
intervention.
This enhancement will address Patient Safety Issue PSPO 445.
Patient Record System (CPRS) to be copied into each field has been
retained, and an additional action has been added to optionally open a
word processing edit dialog after copying the provider comments into the
appropriate field (Special Instructions for Unit Dose, Other Print Info
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