ORDER WRITING POLICY:
Goal: All orders on teaching patients will be
routed through residents during normal working hours.
Attending physicians should
page assigned resident to discuss any orders to be written between
During other hours, to
facilitate patient care, it may be necessary for the attending to write
orders. The attending should write a
progress note detailing the need for changes in the care plan to facilitate
student/resident learning.
Resident must contact the
attending physician when major changes in patient care or condition occur. In an emergency, the attending physician must
be contacted as soon as possible by one of the team members.
All student orders will be
written under the immediate supervision of the supervising resident, rounder or
attending physician and immediately co-signed.
All orders are placed in the
computer through “Computerized Physician Order Entry”(CPOE). This helps to
reduce errors, document time, date, eliminates abbreviations, and identifies
the physician writing the order, thus meeting the Joint Commission requirements
for physician order entry.