**Patients must be Registered and added to monitor in order to capture any data**
 

Adding Patients to Monitor (dependent on monitor interfaced):
1.    Find patient using the Account Number
2.    Confirm that data matches the account number searched 
3.    Add patient to designated bed/unit/monitor/telemetry pack

Note** If an account is rolled over from ED to Inpatient account the information must be updated via the monitor to pull in any associated data.

Capturing Through Worklist:

1.    Click on Document in black navigation header and go to Worklist
2.    If intervention is not on the worklist or added via the SOC - go to “Add” and Search under Any Word for Monitor
3.    If a intervention is capable of capturing data from a monitor this rhythm icon   will appear beside intervention name 

4.    When Monitor Vital Signs is highlighted (as above) the nurse can then select one of three options from the top of the worklist:  
●     Icon will pull in the vital signs from the monitor.
●      Icon will allow the nurse to select the time they want to capture from and to and the frequency. The nurse can then press “Capture Selected” to capture the Vital Signs “From Date” “Thru Date” at a selected interval showing “Abnormals” outside of the Intervals or not (if unclicked).

●      Icon will allow the nurse to change the interval at which all vitals will pull moving forward (unless edited later on) 
5.    Once information is captured it will pull in as green to indicate that these vitals need to be saved. Once saved these vital signs will appear in black ink.

6.    Click Save and Exit to save data to the EMR

Capturing Through Specialty Care:

1.    Click on Document in black navigation header and go to Specialty Care
2.    If intervention is not on the worklist or added via the SOC - go to “Items” and select “Get More” searching Any Word for Monitor

3.    If a intervention is capable of capturing data from a monitor these icons will appear beside the intervention name.                                                                 

●    Note using the icons beside the intervention will only capture data related to the one intervention
4.     The  nurse can then select one of three options from the header (see above to Worklist for details:   
●    Note using these icons from header will look at capturing for All monitor interventions available on the specialty care flowsheet
5.    Once information is captured it will pull in as green to indicate that these vitals need to be saved. Once saved these vital signs will appear in black ink.

6.    Clicking Save will save the data to the EMR

Editing Captured Data before Saving:
1.    Deleting captured data before saving:
●    Select the icon at the top of the page and it will grey out the column indicating that when the nurse saves MEDITECH will not pull that data into the EMR. 

2.    Adding data not captured via monitor:
●    Click on the drop down arrow and group responses (see example below)

3.    Editing captured data: 

●    Select data box and change to the appropriate data (see below: left image is captured data 

     and right image is edited data)