This report includes the following:
The patient location, medical record number (MRN), name, and admission date
The saved/signed status of the POE MD Discharge Order (DO) including the signature name, date, and time when most recently modified; status is either Preliminary (not in CDR) or Final (in CDR)
The saved/signed status of the POE RN Discharge Instructions (DI) including the signature name, date, and time when most recently modified; status is either Preliminary (not in CDR) or Final (in CDR)
The saved/signed status of the Patient Discharge Medication List (PDML) including the signature name, date, and time when most recently modified; this field will not update if the PDML is reprinted after initial save/print, unless a modification to the med list was made and the PDML was saved/printed again
The date and time the patient was discharged from CBEDS and is no longer listed on the UCM; patients will continue to be displayed on the report after discharge from CBEDS in accordance with the time the DO/DI can still be edited
The following members of the care unit staff are authorized to generate this report: RN, House Officer, Fellow, Resident, Nurse Practitioner, Physician Assistant, Clinical Nurse Midwife, Pharmacist, Operations Coordinator, Operations Assistant.
If you haven't already:
Click Tools (ALT+L) on the main order entry window.
Click Reports (ALT+S).
Click Discharge Paperwork Report (ALT+G).
The report is generated automatically. To run it again, click Refresh (ALT+R).
To change the parameters for the report:
The default for clinical workstations is the care unit where the device is located. Click the Locations field to open the list, then click one or more checkboxes to select or deselect the care units to include in the report.
All patients on the unit are included. To report on a particular patient, type the MGH medical record number in the MRN field. The location is automatically blanked.
The default time frame for the report is today. To change the start and/or end date, click to check Run by Admit Date, then type or select from the calendar to set the start and end date. You must limit the number of days to 31.
Click to check Test Patients if these are needed.
To generate the report with a new date range, click Run Results (ALT+R). This will clear any previous results.
To generate the report for a different location and/or a particular patient, click Get Current Status (ALT+G). This will clear any previous results.
To sort the report, click a column heading
On the first click, columns with text data sort alphabetically from a to z. Click a second time to sort from z to a.
On the first click, columns with dates sort from oldest to most recent. Click a second time to sort from most recent to oldest.
To change the view:
Click and drag the edge of a column to change its width.
Click the vertical scroll bar on the right to display additional results when there are too many to fit in the display.
Click the horizontal scroll bar n the bottom to display data in columns that do not fit in the display.
To print or save the report:
To open the report in a spreadsheet, formatted as displayed, click Open as Excel File (ALT+F). Excel opens automatically.
To send the results to a tab delimited .txt file, click Import to Text File (ALT+T). Notepad opens automatically.
Print and save from Excel or Notepad.
Return to the UCM:
Click Exit (ALT+E) to close the report.
Click Back to UCM Options (ALT+B) to return to the Tools options.
Click Exit to UCM Options (ALT+X) to return to the UCM.
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