Skilled Nursing Facilities

Creating and Managing Order Sets

You can add, edit, copy, retire, and reactive Order Sets. Order sets are a grouping of one or more order templates. Order sets can improve efficiency for the clinical staff by allowing multiple related orders to be saved to the resident’s chart by selecting the order set. Depending on the design and implementation, they can provide clinical decision support by suggesting specific orders that would be appropriate based on the resident’s condition or other clinical factors.

Warning

The order templat-es must be created before building the order set.

  1. Do one of the following: 

    • Single facility: Clinical > Setup > Order Set Library.

    • Multi-facility: Management Console > Standards > Care Management > Order Set Library.

    • Select the Available Order Templates you want to include in the Order Set. After you select your options, click Add to move the Template  to the Selected Order Templates list.

  2. Click Publish

  • Batch Update - Order sets saved in draft status must be published before they are visible and available at order entry. Order Sets can be published individually or in a batch. Use Batch Update to publish, retire, or reactivate multiple templates and assign or unassign multiple agencies at one time.

  • facilities -After saving, the order set is active in all facilities. Use the facilities link to clear those that are not going to use the template.

  • Linked Order Set To designate the Order Set as Linked, select Link Selected Order Templates. This links the templates so that after it is added to a resident record, if one of the linked orders is held, resumed, or discontinued you can take the same action on the other linked orders.