Medication Order Changes in Pharmacy Module
For Nursing/MD’s:
Summary: The Pharmacy team will be making internal changes to medication orders. This change will affect a small number of existing medications on patients at Copper Ridge Place and WGH.
Nursing: Since the drugs will be reordered, this will result in a notification on the eMAR requiring you to Acknowledge the medication again before administering. No additional e-signatures will be required of physicians.
Rationale: These changes within the pharmacy module support standardization of medication building.
These changes will commence on March 10th at 12:00 pm.
If you encounter any issues administering medications after this change please contact 1Health support at 8601 (internal at YHC) and 393-8601 (external).
For Pharmacy (Save On & YHC):
Summary: The Pharmacy team will be making internal changes to medication orders to change the order type utilized in the medication order. This change will affect a small number of existing medications on patients at Copper Ridge Place and WGH. The following order types will be inactivated as approved by Jamie Steeves:
| Mnemonic | Name | Type |
| B | Bulk | MED |
| CHM | Chemo Med | MED |
| INH | Inhalation | MED |
| INJ | Injection | MED |
| NARC | Narcotic | MED |
Please use order type = MED instead
| MED | Medication | MED |
| Mnemonic | Name | Type |
| A | Alternating IV | ALT |
Not needed, previously used for TPN
Pharmacy: Once the change is complete, please utilize the order type of MED to replace the use of all other order types.
Rationale: These changes within the pharmacy module support standardization of medication building
These changes will commence on March 10th at 12:00 pm.
If you encounter any issues after this change please contact 1Health support via Lori Thibodeau, Kaitlin Rafuse, or Karen Giordano.
