A new Screening to Vascular Access Nurse order is available for the bedside nurse to contact the Vascular Access team. This new screening order will be sent to the Vascular Access Team in Message Center and can be used to convey patient care needs such as starting an IV or changing a PICC dressing.
Updates to the HAPI Bundle will require nurses to apply the Sacral Mepilex dressing for a variety of procedures and types of patients.
A new conditional order, Outpatient in a Bed (OPIB), is available for same day surgery patients transferred to an inpatient unit for off hours discharge.
The Elopement Precaution order is being replaced with the Elopement Precautions Protocol Order. The new protocol order provides guidance on when elopement precautions should be implemented. It also includes an option to place a Social Work Consult Order.
The Allergy component in the Workflow/Clinical Summary pages has received a background update. In the event you receive an error message that Allergies data is not retrievable, allergy information can be found by clicking the Allergies link on the patient Banner Bar or by accessing Allergies from the Table of Contents.
The Visits component is being replaced with Visits List component on all Workflow/Clinical Summary pages.
To provide transparency and awareness for staff and families in Acute Care across both campuses, the Pediatric Hospital
Medicine team has established Medically Ready Discharge Criteria (MRDC) for 10 of the most frequent diagnoses.
It was recently decided not to implement the Referral Management technology and the go-live scheduled for April 30th was cancelled.
Referral Management (ARM) was meant to be the first phase of a three phased technology implementation intended to make it easy for providers to refer to Children’s Minnesota and improve the speed of processing those referrals. Phases two and three were stopped due to the Epic transition. Without these subsequent phases, it was determined that ARM will not meet our stated goals.
Children’s of MN adopts coding and documentation guidelines from the AMA. We do not typically follow CMS (Medicare based) rules because Children’s is not a Medicare-based facility.
The Media Gallery component has been added to all Workflow Summary pages.
The Psychosocial Assessment section in IView has been updated to include Estimated Hours of Sleep and Sleeping Behaviors.
The hearing screening section of the Neonatal Discharge Activities PowerForm has been updated to prioritize the ABR hearing screen.
Two new PowerPlans: GT/GJ Post Op and Maintenance (used for Pediatrics, CVICU, and PICU) and Neonatal GT/GJ Post Op and Maintenance have been created to streamline the process of post-operative care, feeding, and maintenance for patients with newly placed Gastrostomy or Jejunostomy tubes.