Is this a universal thing these days? I was talking to a traveler the other day and he said that many places of doing this.
Is this going to turn out to be just another useless form, or has anyone seen some concrete positives come out of it. There've been some problems where I work. The nurses are hurrying to get the forms done, some of the docs are blindly signing them off. I notice it's a bigger problem when the admiting doc is not the primary doc for the pt. Also, some of the older pts are tinkering with their prescribed doses at home, they give us the info, we write it on the med-rec sheet, the admit doc takes it as the gospel, and then there is an error. I had a pt who ended up being over metropolized on a double dose which he had also been mistakenly taking at home. He was having some pretty significant non sustained bradycardia, and when I called the primary he said that the dosages, which had been taken off of med-rec by pharmacy, and had been incorrect.
My point being that med-rec is sometimes creating more problems than it's solving. Also it's timeconsuming. I haven't given up on it yet, but I'm losing hope.