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Tue, 07/14/2015 - 17:48
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Victor B. DeLapp
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Administration of scheduled medications after OR procedures
I am interested in how other facilities are handling HELD medication orders after an OR patient returns to an inpatient bed. We are an EPIC hospital and our system currently places these medications on MAR HOLD status while in the OR. The system changes the order to a MAR UNHOLD status when they return to the nursing unit. The nurse must manually change this status to administer the medication. We are seeing multiple errors where needed medications are not given. I would appreciate any policies that address this issue. We are also looking at possible EPIC system changes.
Thanks, Vic
