October 21 - NAH Communication

CHANGE SUMMARY

Change

Change Date

Change Summary

Benefits

Review/Approval

Care Plan Special Indicator

Week of Oct 24th

  • Care Plan will be a Special Indicator that allows all health care providers to document high level information on the patient’s electronic health record

Helpful Tip Sheets:

Viewing ED Care Plan as a Scanned Document

Scanning Care Plan to the Chart

Special Indicators

Care Plan Special Indicator

  • Moves the care plan to a location where all health care providers and allied health have access to view pertinent patient care information across all modules. Ie: pharmacy, nursing, physicians, lab, registration, etc.
  • All areas with access to the Special Indicators have the option of documenting patient’s Care Plan Special Indicator
  • Improves consistent and timely delivery of specialized care that is right for the patient and their unique needs when accessing YHC services

NAHLC

Status Board Colour Schemes Update

Oct. 25

  • Status board colours related to sex/gender will be removed
  • A Reactive Behaviour Special Indicator will highlight a patient name in magenta
  • 2 patients with the same name will highlight both patient names in yellow
  • Consistent colour schemes across YHC
  • Increased safety when dealing with reactive behaviors

NAHLC

TPN Workflow

Oct. 18

  • TPN assessment has been moved from the MAR and will now to be documented as a worklist item

Helpful Tip Sheet:

TPN Worklist Assessment

  • Reduce documentation errors.
  • Easier for Physicians and Nursing to review charting.

Inpatient Committee

Newborn Hearing Test

Upcoming

  • Easy access to Newborn Hearing Screen

Helpful Tip Sheet:

Printing Newborn Hearing Screen

  • Improves communication with Yukon Hearing Services.

Mat Newborn Committee

Care Consent Act SDM display

Oct. 26

  • SDM information as entered in the Care Consent Act (CCA) order will be added to nursing and allied health secondary status boards.
  • The status for the CCA order will also display above the SDM information.
  • Green Flag = CCA order is active
  • Red X = CCA order is canceled, completed, or otherwise inactive.

NOTE:

  • SDM information will continue to display once the CCA order is canceled. Please verify the CCA status.
  • SDM information will only display on patient visits in which the CCA order was entered. (It will not carry over next time a patient is admitted).

  • To increase the visibility and accessibility for clinicians of all allied health areas to locate a current patient SDM.

NAHLC

FOR INFORMATION

Item

Summary

Review/Approval

OB/GYN no longer Admit Provider for C-sections

  • Registration will now list the GP OB as Admitting Provider instead of the OB/GYN for newborn admissions by c-section, this will ensure the surgeons do not get newborns added to their rounds list anymore.

Mat. Newborn Committee

eMAR

  • This month pharmacy will be working on changes to the give line style for injectable medications

Example: methylprednisolone 125 mg (62.5 mg dose) currently displays:

Give: 0.5 injection(s). This type of medication give line style will be reviewed and modified to display a give line style in of either Give: 0.5 mL or Give 62.5 mg / 0.5 mL

Pharmacy

NAHLC

Newborn Capillary

Blood Gas

Documentation

  • Newborn Capillary Blood Gas documentation will now be a separate intervention. This allows for a clearer picture of this documentation and prevents double charting

Mat Newborn

Committee

Dawson City Community Hospital Bed Changes

  • The bed names will now be seen on the Tracker as 1-6
  • The virtual rooms have been removed

CHCAC

If you encounter any issues or have any questions about these changes, please contact the
1Health support line at ext 8601 (internal) or (867) 393-8601 (external) or through JIRA at YHC-HELPDESK@wgh.yk.ca

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