An effort to help ensure we are capturing mediation handouts given to patients for the inpatient nursing staff and clinics is underway. Look for these changes later in November after the next Use and Standards meeting.
Currently we have a section in the table of contents called: Drug Reference or Drug Information (depending upon the position). This section will be removed and users will be encouraged to use the Medication Leaflets in the Patient Education tool.
- If you print from the drug reference tool it doesn’t save anywhere so you can’t see what others have educated on
- The medication leaflets will actually save a list of what was handed out during the encounter – viewable for others during the stay and at discharge through depart
- Case Management and Pharmacy will use this as they do any medication education so that we aren’t duplicating efforts (from 1115 Waiver groups)
- Nurses can still right-click on their drugs on the MAR and see the drug reference for the selected med
- All users will have access to Lexicomp from the Links Page if they want to review other meds
