Scenario: You have a patient that needs to be given a certain medication every 4 hours, how do you make sure that the Medical Assistants are able to accomplish this even when you are not there to remind them because you also have other patients.
Key Terms:
Order: medical instructions related to patient care given by a doctor to the med assistants.
Watch the following video on how to create a new order.
Follow these steps to create an inpatient order:
On the home screen click on Inpatient Orders.
Search for the patient you want to create the order using their Name or EVAX ID on the search bar at the top and then click on the patient you are looking for.
Click on Orders to open the orders tab.
Click on the '+Orders' button to create a new tab for this patient.
Fill the order details in the from that appears:
Frequency Type - Select if the order is Recurring( not a once off) or One Time.
Start Date - The date of which the order is supposed to start.
Duration(Days) - The amount of day which the order will take (Only for recurring orders)
No End - For recurring orders that do not end.
Order Type - The type of order your order is e.g. Vitals
Frequency Unit - The measure of how frequent you order is e.g. Every X hours (Only for recurring orders)
Frequency - How Frequent is your recurring order, measured using the frequency unit e.g. Every 4 hours, Every 2 days
Urgency - how urgent is your Order, is it Urgent, Routine or STAT(its needed immediately).
Notes - Add any other notes that you wish the team fulfilling these orders to know may deem important to them.
Bin Zone (if ordering medication) - This is where you want the medication to be dispensed from.
Medication - Select the medication you want to order. Available quantity will show for medication within the bin zone you selected.
Click on the 'Create Order' button at the bottom of the form to save your order.
