Texting Orders

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DiAnthia Patrick
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Texting Orders

I'm interested to know if others have organizational policies for allowing or prohibiting "texting" of orders including but not limited to medication orders. What do you allow, how is an order defined when considering the act of "texting"/paging/ etc.

Thanks.
DiAnthia