Putting UDS Orders In

[pholda]

Can a non-licensed employee(such as a unit secretary) put in a UDS order(to be signed by a Dr. of course) or does a licensed person, such as a nurse, have to do it?

Ty!

[klone, MSN, RN]

It would be no different than any other order. Are you ACCEPTING the order from the provider, or are you completing a task that an RN has delegated to you? What is your facility's policy on entering orders on behalf of others?

[roser13, ASN, RN]

It depends upon your facility's P&P.

[JKL33]

You will have to know your facility policy. There are varying practices. I haven't seen an unlicensed individual entering orders since 1) we moved away from physician writing orders on paper charts and 2) physicians became responsible for entering their own orders in the EMR.

Generally speaking a unit secretary can't enter orders that haven't already been given, and they can't take verbal orders...well, I should say, these things shouldn't be happening. So with those two things in mind, there's not really much of a place for them to be entering orders at all...(except for a situation where orders are still written down somewhere by either the provider or the RN who received a verbal/phone order)