Charlie and all, The PENDING function shows up when using Order Sets. (When I noticed it.) It was added into PHA for POM. Don't see a lot of use since so hard to change status back to regular.
Here is a quick summary: Pending Orders Function Meditech has created an enhancement to allow Orders to be placed in a "Pending" status. This enhancement is available in 5.6 SR0 and above. Prior to this enhancement, sites found "work arounds" such as creating a "dummy drug" in the Drug Dictionary to allow Provider Orders to be placed in a Pending status. Pending Orders are defined as orders that are in need of further review/clarification. With this enhancement, orders may be placed in a Pending status in Pharmacy during Order Entry or for orders in an Unverified status. Any user with access to enter orders will have the option to place the order in a Pending status. Orders entered with a Pending flag will be filed as Unverified orders. The Pending flag must be removed from the order to become eligible for Verification. Only users set up with Verification Access in pharmacy may remove the Pending flag from an order. Editing Pending Status If you want to place the order in a PENDING status, enter Y at the Pending prompt. A pop-up window with a text field appears when you enter Y at the Pending prompt. If you place an order in a PENDING status, comments will be required as to why the order is pending (i.e., clarification, lab results, etc.). The user is able to view pending comments on the Rx Print Order. Inpatient pending orders will appear on the eMAR, but will not be eligible for the nurse to document against. To remove an order from its PENDING status, access the Edit Order routine and change the Y at the "Pending" prompt to N and enter comments to indicate why this order is being removed from a PENDING status. BTW, this status will print on MAR and other places. For a complete summary go to Meditech's website and get the PHARMACY BEGINNER REVIEW MANUAL Version 5.6. It is a training document all about PHA 5.6. Jeff Thompson,RPH Newman Regional Health Emporia,Kansas -----Original Message----- From: meditech-l@MTUsers.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charlie Downs Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2007 7:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; meditech-l@MTUsers.com Subject: RE: [MEDITECH-L] PHA MAGIC 5.6.1 PENDING orders functionality Cindy - We are also 5.61, but and not eMAR or POM, but I haven't seen the pending function. Is there some kind of customer defined parameter that turns it on or off? Where do you see it and what does it look like. Charlie Charles Downs PharmD Washington County Hospital 251 E. Antietam Street Hagerstown, MD, 21740 301-790-8904 -----Original Message----- From: meditech-l@MTUsers.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 5:08 PM To: meditech-l@MTUsers.com Subject: [MEDITECH-L] PHA MAGIC 5.6.1 PENDING orders functionality Has anyone who does not have eMAR or POM yet been able to make use of the PENDING function. I just started testing 5.6.1 and I am a little confused as this seems like it would be a very useful function, but it seems very cumbersome. Has anyone found a way to "turn off" the "enter order as PENDING" that pops up for every order? Has anyone found a faster way to remove a PEND status from an order other than the method I have had to use, which is: Perform an EDIT on the PENDING order, enter all the way down to the PENDING prompt, change the Y to a N and change comments. After removing the PEND, you have to VERIFY the order. It seems to me that there could be a shortcut function called RP (remove pending) when just the PEND prompt and comments box would pop up to be edited. It also seems to me that if an order was originally entered by a user able to enter verified orders and then a pending is removed by a user able to enter verified orders, it is redundant to go in and have to VERIFY the order again. Even without eMAR or POM in place this could be a very useful tool, except that removing the PEND status requires so many steps. I do hope I am missing something and that someone has a better method of working this function - if so, please let me know. Thanks Cindy This e-mail message, including its attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential or privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= To subscribe or unsubscribe to the meditech-l, visit MTUsers.NET. To check the status of the meditech-l, visit MTUsers.NET. 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