OpTime is Epic's operating room management system.
Provider Courses
Anesthesia
Class Length: 3.5 hours
Prerequisites: None
Registration: Online Search for: Anesthesia
Roles: Anesthesia Faculty, Residents, Fellows, CRNAs, and SRNAs
Content: Anesthesia workflows for pre-op, intra-op, and post-op.
Surgical Workflows for Providers
Class Length: Online/On-Demand
Prerequisites: Epic LIP Basics (or Epic LIP Test-Out) and Epic LIP Inpatient or Epic LIP Ambulatory
Registration: Register in ERMA for session number 64620
Roles: Providers who perform OR cases.
Content: Pre- and post-operative Epic workflows.
OpTime Nursing Courses
Epic OpTime Pre/Post Op RNs
Class Length: 4 hours
Prerequisites: Status Board prerequisite link will be provided in the registration confirmation e-mail.
Registration: Online Search for: "pre/post"
Roles: Nurses working in pre/post op areas
Content: Pre-op documentation, administering medications, and placing verbal orders.
Epic OpTime Intra-op RN
Course Length: 4 hours
Prerequisite: The Status Board prerequisite link will be provided in the registration confirmation e-mail.
Registration: Online Search for: "intra-op"
Roles: Nurses working in Intra-op areas
Content: Intra-op documentation
Acute Lab 1 (Alaris Pump Integration)
Course Length: 2 hours
Prerequisites: OpTime Pre-Op (for Ambulatory Surgery & Children's Hospital Prep/Recovery nurses)
Roles: UIHC Nurses that are required to work with the Alaris infusion pumps.
Content: This lab is in partnership with NCEC. The Alaris Pump portion includes learning pump functions, a demonstration of integration (start/stop primary and secondary, Infusion Data Validate, intake volumes, associate/disassociate a running infusion, etc.), and non-integrated meds/blood.
OpTime Specialty Nursing Courses
Epic DHC Procedure RN
Class Length: 3 hours
Prerequisites: None
Registration: Online Search for: "dhc"
Roles: Registered nurses working in the Digestive Health Center.
Content: Interpret the Status Board and work through the Pre-Procedure, Intra-Procedure and Recovery navigators.
Support Staff Courses
Epic OpTime NA, PCT, or Surg Tech (Online)
Class Length: 20 minutes
Prerequisite: None
Registration: Online Search for Session Number: "59289"
Roles: Nursing Assistants, Patient Care Techs, and Surgical Techs.
Content: General overview of the OR Status Board and its functionality.
OpTime Clerk & ADT
Class Length: 3-4 hours based on where the clerk is working.
Prerequisite: Yes, ICON course links provided upon registration.
Registration: E-mail epictrainingrequests@healthcare.uiowa.edu
Roles: Clerks working in Main OR, MCNL OR, Children's Hospital OR, or ASC OR pre op, intra op, and post op
Content: As appropriate based on where the clerk is working: find, interpret, and print the OR schedule, create and schedule OR surgeries, manipulate the OR schedule, enter patient timing events, and document pre-surgical phone calls. ADT topics can include admit to DOSA, transfer inpatients to Main OR, and discharge from SSRF.
OpTime Scheduler
Class Length: 2.5 hours
Prerequisite: None
Registration: E-mail epictrainingrequests@healthcare.uiowa.edu
Roles: Staff who perform surgical scheduling.
Content: Learn to schedule and update surgical cases using ORs At A Glance and Snapboard. Content also includes removing, bumping, and canceling cases.
Training Login Sheets: OpTime Scheduler
Nursing Student Online Training
Epic OpTime for Pre, Intra, and Post Op Nursing Students (Online)
Class Length: 1 hour
Prerequisite: None
Registration: Online Search for Session Number: "63911"
Roles: Pre-op, Intra-op, and Post-op nursing students.
Content: Chart Review, Results Review, standard nursing student documentation, administering medications, overview of the Status Board, and Intraoperative documentation.
Epic Procedure Area Nursing Students (Online)
Class Length: 1 hour
Prerequisite: None
Registration: Online Search for Session Number: "63909"
Roles: Procedure Area Nursing Students (Lower Level SFCH2, Digestive Health Center, and IRL Procedure Area)
Content: Chart Review, Results Review, standard nursing student documentation, administering medications, overview of the Status Board, and Intraoperative documentation.
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