Continue the great work! Updates from today:

• For ED Boarders:
  • If you need to add additional orders outside of Gen Med Admit, make sure the patient’s status is “ED Boarder” and not ED. Otherwise all orders will get routed to the ED pharmacy and lab.
  • Make sure to specify first dose timing for all meds. If medications are needed STAT for ED boarders, verbally communicate this to ED nurses.
  • Night hospitalist residents should list themselves as primary contact for all overnight admits.  Teams assuming care in the morning should sign up as primary contact during sign-out
• Use “Slides Wright Giemsa Wright Stain” for peripheral smears
• Adding favorite folders to quick orders tabs
  

• Specimens from procedures: once the specimen is collected and labeled, please update the status of any specimen in ORCHID to “Collected” BEFORE it arrives in laboratory, by:

  a.       Having the nurse scan the patient’s wristband AND specimen label.

  …OR…
  

  b.      Updating the specimen status manually under Specimen Collection in the menu bar.

  
  

  Select “Unable to scan barcode?”

  
  

  Hover over the lab specimen order and click on the menu icon on the right.

  
  

  Change status to “Collected.”

Do the above before the specimen goes to Laboratory.  You can still bring the specimen to Laboratory yourself (especially those critical ones), but Lab cannot process the order until it is “collected” in ORCHID.