We are an Epic hospital and have been seeing issues with patients receiving extra doses of medications because the nurses are "adding" doses to the MAR instead of moving/charting on the pre-populated due times. When they add an administration, it still shows up as due at the originally scheduled time. We had requested from Epic to remove the ability of the RN to "add" new due times, but they said this would impact the functionality for nurses to be able to give PRN medications. We also tried to add a BPA that would fire if the medication were given too soon (to alert the second nurse who is giving it at the due time), but this BPA didn't function as expected. Has anyone tackled this issue at their hospital? Thank you! Staley
Wed, 04/28/2021 - 13:24
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Adding doses to MAR