MEDITECH
Nursing
product brief
MEDITECH's Nursing
application allows both multiple and single facility health care
organizations to accurately measure patient care needs, create
standard patient care plans, document assessments on-line, and
use nursing resources more effectively.
Highlights:
•
Automate the creation of a patient's plan of care
• Create individualized patient care plans
• Document performance of interventions
associated with patient care plans
• Automatically record acuity just by
documenting care given
• Associate each intervention with acuity
values to permit accurate costing of patient care
• Record on-line notes about a patient's
progress
• Print profiles that show patient
conditions, diagnoses and treatments
• Print audits of patient interventions
for private insurers, health insurance companies, quality
improvement managers, and governmental organizations that review
standards
• Measure and review patient care
requirements
• Calculate the number of staff and the
skill mix required at each care area
• Plan staffing of personnel by unit or by
individual staff member
• Generate statistics that analyze
delivery of patient care, efficiency of care delivery, adequacy
of staffing, and adequacy of staffing projections
• Pull lab results from electronic medical
records while viewing patient profiles
• Use an MIS report schedule to print
patient profiles.
Standard Features
Management
of Care Plans
The application offers an on-line
library of standard care plans for patients. With it, users are
able to:
• Use existing care plans or create new ones according to
the nursing model of choice
• Match care plan to the diagnosis appropriate to a
condition, the interventions appropriate to the diagnosis or
problem, and the expected goals of the treatment
• Associate each intervention with a workload measurement or
acuity value, which can be organization-wide or location-specific.
The system also permits modification of standard care plans to
suit individual patient needs. Users can:
• Construct an individual care plan by deleting or adding
diagnoses and interventions when appropriate
• Define supplementary text, goals, and expected outcomes
• Edit the status, initiation date, target date, completion
date, or directions of an intervention on an individual care plan
• Add supplementary text to interventions on individual care
plans
• Install standard care plan dictionaries to facilitate
installation
• Print individual care plans for specific patients to list
each diagnosis or problem included in a plan, giving status,
initiation date, target date, and completion date; printouts also
detail the goals and interventions associated with each plan.
Automated
Assessments
On-line assessment routines suggest nursing diagnoses or problem
lists based on the responses in the assessment, initiating the
plan of care and acuity. The system:
• Automatically generates a problem list or care plan for
review
• Prevents omission of areas of concern for the patient
• Assists in the planning of staffing needs
• Meets The Joint Commission requirements of the Plan of
Care based on the assessment and by linking outcomes/goals to
interventions
• Auto triggers an order based on a query in a Nursing
assessment
• Prioritizes problems and diagnoses
• Provides on-line Resident Assessment Instrument
• Provides Medical Administration Records
• Provides acknowledgement of ordered meals by authorized
users.
Point-of-Care
Documentation
The application accommodates point-of-care documentation using a
handheld computer. Care providers view current patient
information and record observations, view and record patient
medications, and document treatment while at the patient's
bedside. The handheld computer offers full access to a wide range
of patient care and clinical information found in MEDITECH's
integrated Health Care Information System.
Acuity
Acuity values and workload measurements predict and record
patient needs and identify costs for patient care. Features
include:
• Prospective (for predicting patient care requirements) and
retrospective (for recording the care delivered) acuity units
• Consideration of multiple aspects of each intervention:
status, level, directions, acuity value
• Posting of care delivered to a patient's account in the
Finance Department
• Reports that analyze the adequacy of staffing projections
and examine a single unit over a range of time or compare
multiple units at one time. Statistics are available by day, week,
ledger period, or year, and as totals or as daily averages
• Indirect and direct acuity billing.
Managing
Interventions
The application provides a flexible method for managing
interventions, as users can:
• Quickly check off a group of interventions, then perform
similar functions on all of them at once, such as, document,
change their levels and/or their directions, and view their
histories
• Document activity performed by themselves or by others
within the health care organization
• Record activity for the current time or for an earlier
time
• Print audits reflecting documentation and delivery of care;
audit formats are determined by the type of interventions
included and the needs of the various care areas that require the
audits.
Scheduling
Capabilities
The planning of nursing schedules is automated, as nurse managers
use the system to:
• Plan the staffing of nursing personnel by unit or by staff
member
• Project staff requirements (in tabular or graphic formats
for enhanced user comprehension) based on number of workload
units historically required at that unit
• Edit staffing retrospectively to ensure accurate records
of hours worked.
Miscellaneous
Features
The system offers functionality that enables care providers to
print profiles that summarize a patient's condition, diagnosis,
and treatment.
• At shift change, care providers can quickly familiarize
themselves with the present state of their patients
• Care providers can choose to see the patient profile for
one patient, several patients, or all the patients on a unit
• Organizations determine their own formats for patient
profiles, selecting the components to be included and the order
in which they are displayed; components include care area-defined
screens, orders, current medications, interventions,
administrative data, progress notes, Intake and Output balances,
and vital signs including graphic display
• Organizations can have as many different patient profiles
as needed, and formats for these patient profiles can be location-specific
• Patient notes can be multi-disciplinary in nature and
viewed for all or selected disciplines.
For more information about us, contact a MEDITECH Marketing Representative.
MEDITECH
Medical Information Technology, Inc.
MEDITECH Circle
Westwood, MA 02090
781-821-3000
www.meditech.com