Function documentationDetermine Individual Times (Irregular Cycle)

 

For cycles which determine very different treatment results (e.g. administration of a drug), it is difficult to create a cycle using the mandatory determination of regular sequences. You can therefore determine alternative individual times for the treatment, within a cycle definition.

Example Example

For the first day you determine a cycle time of 10:00, on the second day 16:00, on the third day 8:00 and 16:00, etc.

End of the example.

Integration

The determination of individual times is integrated into cycle definition and is available in the following application areas:

  • Nursing – nursing service

  • Service Management – medical services

  • Clinical Order – cyclical service ordering

  • Medication – medication orders

  • Vital Signs

Activities

In the cycle definition, select the Irregular radio button to enable the entry of individual times.

Enter the irregular cycle times with the day, time and quantity (which is proposed for all calculated times within a cycle definition).

Note Note

The system will use the quantity as a multiplier for the individual dose specified in the order.

End of the note.

You can determine validity restraints for this cycle definition (From Day and To Day) to restrict individual times to a precise predefined period of time. These validity restraints are also used within the medication order, i.e. to determine that event generation only takes into account all times up to the defined end time of the cycle.

Example Example

For the first day you determine cycle times at 10:00, 12:00, and 17:00. You can automatically complete this irregular treatment outcome within the day, for subsequent days, so that treatments also take place at 10:00, 12:00, and 17:00 on subsequent days.

End of the example.
Special Features in Medication

In the Medication context, this completion only concerns the medication events and is automatically executed by the system as part of event generation as follows:

  • If the To Day field is left blank, you can limit the completion of the medication events using the end time of the medication order.

  • If you enter a value in the To Day field, you can limit the completion of the medication events using this end time.

    Note Note

    In this case the system will no longer automatically generate events if the order is extended.

    End of the note.