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Said: We had issues when they started replacing the fluorescent light bulbs with LED light bulbs to save energy.  The LED bulbs are intermittent, so it interferes with the barcode scanner on the iSTAT (and other barcode scanners).  ...

Said: Our Patient Care Techs are required to document in EPIC that they notified a licensed patient caregiver if they obtained a critical value.  I audit 100% of critical results performed by them by manually looking up each one in EPIC....

Said: Our Epic team built a spot in Clinician Notification for charting different critical results including lab called criticals and POCT criticals.  I have a report that runs all the critical POCT glucoses and the flowsheet fields from...

Said: We recently had an issue in our NICU. Our nursery went to a new lighting system that simulates circadian rhythm. It interfered with the iSTAT LED scanner. We had our operators shade the cartridge barcode from the nursery lights and this...

Said: This is an ongoing issue for alot of us I think.  We have the non-nurses (MA's, ED techs, NA's etc) enter the results into EPIC in the flowsheet.  Our EPIC team created a spot for them to enter the documentation (name the resu...