Administration "routes" updated

Stemming from several requests from the medical imaging department, the Pharmacy team has made several adjustments to the available "routes" for various medications and contrasts commonly used in our departments.

You should be able to select an appropriate "route" of administration for every item that currently lives on the medical imaging order set. If you have never used the order set to enter orders for contrast or medications, you should know that it is available. Instead of using "order entry" you would use the "order set" activity and use order set 1512. This opens a pick list of all the commonly used contrasts/medications in the department. It is just an alternate way of finding the item you are searching for.

If you have questions about that, contact your super user or feel free to comment here on the blog.

Next Step with Daily Chests

Many of the diagnostic techs had a chance this week to review the Daily Portable chest revamp proposal. That was the first step of getting this proposed workflow from the idea stage to production. Now that we have cleared that hurdle, we need to present our plan to the group that represents unit clerks. That will be happening early next week.

The bottem line is that the old workflow was causing many problems, the new workflow seems like it will be an improvement but it will not be put in practice until we do some more groundwork and get everyone involved properly educated.

Thanks for all of the ideas about how to make improvements....