Connect Care StreetSmarts - Rounding Workflows

This section summarizes recommendations about how to use Connect Care to support ward rounds for inpatients. The focus is on prescriber accountabilities when tasks may be shared by more than one individual. Prescribers can hand off to one another during the day. Prescribers may also work in teams, including trainees, where tasks are assigned to different individuals.

Daily information review and documentation tasks take advantage of interactive charting stills and the structured data initiated during recommended  admission workflows. In turn, use of the tools described here will speed and simplify discharge workflows

Workflow Sequencing

There are many different styles of inpatient rounding. The following sequence of steps assumes that the primary prescriber team goes from patient to patient for bedside assessments of status and progress. Simpler "running the list" rounds usually do not involve documentation and proceed with fewer steps.

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