Connect Nursing – Med Admin

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Connect Nursing Workflow- Med Administration

Select Medications from the

Patient Menu to begin the

medication process.

The Medication Activity List

displays meds due within the past

48 hours and up to 12 hours in

the future.

The default view for future meds is 2

hours with options to also view 4 hours

or 12 hours.

Meds are categorized into

Unscheduled, Scheduled, PRN, and

Continuous.

• Discontinued orders show with a line

through them.

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Connect Nursing Workflow- Med Administration

Select the

medications you

want to administer

from the Med

Activity View and

Select “Administer”

in the lower right

corner. Meds move

to the “Med Cart”

to complete

additional charting

requirements.

Optional: Tap med

order to see order

info.

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Connect Nursing Workflow- Med Administration

The following must be addressed prior to administering a

medication: Nurse Review, Pharmacy Verification, and Late

charting reason.

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Medication Administration – Late Charting

The Late Alert will fire in Connect Nursing for medications

administered more than 60 minutes past their due time

and the nurse will be prompted to enter a reason.

The late reason can be applied to multiple tasks at once.

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Medication Administration - Not Done Charting

Medications can be charted as Not Done in Connect

Nursing by selecting the medications and choosing the

“Not Done” action instead of Administer.

Users are prompted to enter a reason.

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Medication Administration - Icons

Icons on the Medication Activity List

Icon Description

Immediate Priority – This icon is displayed when a medication task has a

priority of STAT or Now.

Pharmacy Verification – This icon indicates that the medication order has

not been verified by a pharmacist.

Nurse Review – This icon indicates that the order needs nurse review.

Pharmacy Rejected – This icon indicates that the medication order has

been rejected by the pharmacy.

When a medication is in a rejected status, the application does not display

other icons, but displays only the pharmacy reject icon and the following

text instead of the last given information. Rejected by Pharmacy. You are

not allowed to document an activity that is in a rejected status.

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Connect Nursing Workflow- Scan Patient

Scan Patient Wristband

The patient can be

scanned at any point in the

administration process.

Note the blue status bar appears

once the patient has been scanned.

If the patient wristband scan is

bypassed, the user has to enter a

reason for not scanning the patient

before signing the documentation.

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Connect Nursing Workflow- Scan Medication

After scanning the medication,

the user can enter additional

charting elements, nurse

witness, etc if not already done.

They can also scan the patient after

scanning the medication if desired.

If the medication scan is bypassed,

the user has to enter a reason for not

scanning before signing the

documentation.

Once all required information is

met, the user will save the

documentation and then sign off

on the medications from the

“Sign” folder.

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Medication Administration - Incremental Scanning

Incremental Scanning is allowed.

An underdose is allowed. No alert is presented.

An overdose is not allowed. A message is presented to the user.

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Medication Administration - Overdose Charting

An Overdose is a hard stop and is indicated by a red delta.

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Medication Administration – Med Interval Alerts

Med Interval Alerts will fire in Connect Nursing for doses

being administered too close together.

The user has to select a reason for choosing to continue

with administration.

If a minimum interval is

not defined for the

frequency, the user

receives the alert

message below.

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Medication Administration - Nurse Witness

Meds requiring a witness have text to indicate the need for

a second user to scan their badge and/or search for the

user. The Witness is required to enter their password.

The witness can be added to one or many meds in single workflow.

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Medication Administration - Nurse Witness

Only medications that require a witness will default to

selected. The nurse has the ability to also select optional

orders for nurse witness if desired.

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Medication Administration - Nurse Witness

After selecting continue,

the witness will be

presented with a view

only version of each of the

medications charting

details.

The witness personnel

selects the “Next” option

to review each

medication.

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Medication Administration - Nurse Witness

After all medications have

been reviewed, the

witness will be presented

with a summary of all the

medications he/she is

witnessing.

The witness can enter

his/her credentials by

manually entering a

username/password or by

scanning his/her badge.

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Medication Administration - Required Charting Elements

Required charting elements can be completed before or

after entering a witness.

The following need to be completed prior to witnessing otherwise the

user has to re-witness the med order: dose/volume amount, diluent,

route, rate, and performed by user.

The yellow delta indicates charting elements need to be

filled out. Once complete click “save” in the upper right.

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Medication Administration – Site Required

Medication sites can be selected by searching in the med

charting window or selecting from the list.

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Medication Administration – Viewing Comments

Within the charting window, the user is able to view

comments. This includes Order comments, Product/MAR

notes, Special Instructions, and Admin Notes. The user can

also add his/her own comment.

Comments are indicated by

a grey circle.

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Medication Administration – Charting by Proxy

Charting by proxy is allowed with Connect Nursing.

This can be done by manually searching for his/her name or by

scanning the user’s badge in the charting window.

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Medication Administration – Not Given Charting

Medications can be charted as Not Given in Connect

Nursing from the Med Cart view (after selecting the med to

administer) or from within the charting window. Users are

required to enter a reason.