Add Orders to an Existing Set

• If you haven't already:

1. Click Tools (ALT+L).

2. Click Build Personal Order Sets (ALT+B).

• Open the orders list:

3. Click the green order set containing the order to change. (Sets and templates are organized into yellow folders by service or clinical condition. Click a yellow folder to display its contents.)

4. Click Edit (ALT+E).

5. The Orders For This Session list opens. Click to select the line for the order you want to change.

• Write an order:

6. Click the button for the type of order you want.

7. Click Add (ALT+A) or the appropriate order button in the Add New Order section to open the order form.

8. Complete the order form:

• Medications and lab orders (which are too numerous to list) must be selected by searching. See Writing Medication Orders and Writing Orders for Laboratory Testing for details.

• Click to select from drop-down lists .

• Type over, delete, or add to text entries.

• Click to select different options . These are mutually exclusive; selecting one in a group automatically deselects the others.

• Click to check or uncheck items .

• For checkbox or drop-down list selections with additional information, click the button to the right to display the entry form.

• For certain orders, click the labeled button—clinical history, reasons, or restrictions, for example—to open the form for editing. Click OK (ALT+O) to continue.

9. Click OK (ALT+O).

10. Click Close (ALT+C) to carry the new order to the Orders For This Session list.

• Update the set as needed:

11. Delete orders from the set as needed. See Deleting Orders.

12. Edit orders from the set as needed. See Editing Orders From a Set.

• Save the changes:

13. Click Sign (ALT+S)

14. When prompted, type your signing key.

15. Click OK (ALT+O) to return to the Definer.

• Close the definer:

16. Click OK (ALT+O).

17. Click Exit to UCM Options (ALT+X).