Phone Orders & Signing off.

[Luke Burnosky]

Hello, and I'm fairly new to the medical side of understanding the order process at times.

I have been a tech for over 5 months, and got moved to the HUC role recently.

Here is my situation,

Last night we were in downtime, meaning all paper charting for a few hours. We had a patient that needed orders from the doctor. So the LPN called, and wrote the order on paper. The LPN signed off with Dr./LPN on 3/4 orders. I put in the orders, missed the 4th order. The 4th order didn't have the Dr./LPN signed off on it, and honestly didn't think much of it. There was a whole shift between when I left and came back. The night shift nurse tonight did chart checks, told me that I missed adding an order, handed me the chart. I added the order, and signed off again, and commented beside "missed order".

I guess I'm just wondering if I'm in trouble for missing an order, and adding it in even though every other order has Dr./LPN.