STB Medicine Collection Guide

This article contains information specific to STB Medicine, see the Medicine Curriculum for general information, and STB Collection Guide for St Boniface specific information.

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See also:

• STB 5B Collection Guide
• STB E6 Collection Guide

Location of information

Until EPR access/orientation completed, use the Wards' daily admit/transfer/discharge binder for the Ward date/time of event. If no time marked in, refer to the nurses notes in the charts Integrated Progress Notes.

• Template:Discussion is this still valid? Ttenbergen 18:13, 2013 August 8 (CDT)

vacation coverage

For those collectors who are doing vacation relief for the regular collectors who are away, catch up from time off can be expedited for the returning collector if the following things are prioritized.

1. do opp and color generation. (ADL's are a component of the opp and can be found on the epr. They are in "initial assessment" form under the documents tab.) Everything needed for minimal data will be included if the opp is done.
2. medicine apache score. This can only be found in the regular paper chart, as the ER nurses notes and the MICU flow sheet are still paper.

The only things that need to be taken from the paper chart are the dpst info and the apache score info. If the opp is kept current and up to date then charts would not have to be pulled from medical records by the person returning from vacation. This would help tremendously in catching up from time off for the returning collector.DPageNewton 14:40, 2013 February 20 (EST)

Overstay Project

SBGH has now gone to paperless charting or EPR. This means that we can now review almost the entire chart on the computer. The exceptions to this are:

1. the DPST Form. The information found on this form is one part of the information we need for the overstay predictor project (opp).
2. the medicine apache score. These elements are usually found in the ER nurses notes, or the MICU flowsheet (for those patients transferred to medicine from MICU). Both of these forms are still paper.

Lab results

Hard copies of the Lab results will be on the chart within 24 hours of admission, if not much sooner.

• why or how is this relevant? is it different from elsewhere? How does this relate to the EPR? Ttenbergen 18:33, 2012 October 31 (EDT) Template:Discussion

Office and staff

see Category:St Boniface Hospital Office (Medicine)