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This is an ongoing issue... Tools we have found useful: In OE, using the location lookup at the patient prompt - L + space + unit mnemonic + F9. This works really well, and is pretty simple to remember the key strokes. Using the Status board in combination with My list of patients today, or the Location lookup. Patients with the same last name are yellow to stand out. We set up nurses and CNAs first, before we could finish the rollout, we had set up a version for the secretaries and rolling that out too. Our standard is to use the account number, that is how they are trained... Lab, Cardio-Pulmonary etc get the same talk during training. We do counsel, not sure anyone has been fired (outside of registration.. where staff have been terminated) Some of Brian's and Bill's vision for the status board would help as well. Janice B Lisee, RNC BSN Senior Systems Analyst Frederick Memorial Hospital Frederick, Maryland 21701 240-566-3437 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 8:17 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [MEDITECH-L] Wrong Patient Selected for Orders All messages should be posted in plain text. HTML will be converted to attachments. The meditech-l web site is MTUsers.com ====================================== We have a recurring problem with staff (physicians, nurses, ward clerks, etc.) placing orders on the wrong inpatients. Sometimes this is due to patients having the same or similar names. Although staff are encouraged to identify patients by account number they tend to identify patients by name. This is not a frequently occurring problem but one wrong order is too many. Has your facility experienced this type of problem and have you implemented any creative solutions? Please respond to Susan Hohl at [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ meditech-l mailing list [email protected] http://mtusers.com/mailman/listinfo/meditech-l _______________________________________________ meditech-l mailing list [email protected] http://mtusers.com/mailman/listinfo/meditech-l
