Writing an Event-Delayed Order

To write an event-delayed order, follow these steps:

1. Select the Orders tab.

2. Select the Write Delayed Orders button located below the View Orders box.

The Release Orders dialog box appears. The available release events will appear in a list. Your list may contain a highlighted default release event and a common release event list. Your CAC defines the default release event and the common release event list. (For more information about defining a default release event and a common release event list, please see the Event-Delayed Orders topic in the CPRS GUI Technical Manual or Appendix F in the CPRS List Manager Technical Manual).

3. Select the "Delay release of new order(s) until" option.

The available release events will appear.

4. Select the appropriate release event.

Note: If the patient's location has a treating specialty of "observation" and the user tried to write delayed orders, the "transfer" event should not appear in the selection list. The reason is that orders are discontinued on transfer. The result would be if a patient were in an observation location, and delayed orders were written when the patient was moved out of observation, the orders would be cancelled.

5. Select OK

If the Copy active orders for selected event dialog appears, skip to step 6. Otherwise, the Release Orders dialog will close and the name of the release event will now appear below the Write Delayed Orders button. Enter the order as you normally would.

6. Check the active orders that you would like to delay in the Copy active orders for selected release event dialog. These orders will be delayed until the release event specified at the top of the dialog occurs.

7. Select OK.

The Ordering Information dialog will appear. This dialog will contain the release event that you have selected. Check to be sure that you selected the correct release event.

8. Select OK.

9. Enter the order as you normally would.