The Epic system provides functionality to support anesthesia providers and nursing staff when providing procedural care including preprocedure, intraprocedure, and postprocedure.

Resources

Videos/eLearnings

Handouts

  • ANE Acute Pain Service - (Handout) The ANE Acute Pain Service login department gives providers and nurses access to a shared Handoff tool. Providers will use the same tool to write block notes on inpatients and OR patients, and charges will be dropped from Consult and Progress notes.
  • Anesthesia Blood Administration Trifold - (Handout) Reviews the Anesthesia Blood Administration workflow in Epic.
  • Anesthesia Central Line Insertion Checklist - (Handout) Before a Central Line Insertion begins in a procedural area, a staff member will document the results of the “timeout” that is performed (in accordance with policy PC-PCI-05.41). Depending on the type of procedure being performed, this documentation may cause an additional group of rows to appear on the flowsheet for staff to complete.
  • Capturing Electronic Signatures for the Consent for Operation or Procedure Form - (Handout) How to capture electronic signatures for the Consent for Operation or Procedure form.
  • Anesthesia OB Workflows - (Handout) Anesthesia providers will follow specific workflows for OB patients.
  • Device Data Troubleshooting - (Handout) If device data auto validation has stopped, Anesthesia providers can follow steps in Epic to manually validate and turn on auto validation.
  • Inpatient MRI with Anesthesia - (Handout) Anesthesia Providers will be able to view orders for Inpatient MRI procedures in the depot and assist with the scheduling process. This document outlines the entire process. Anesthesia/OR Clerks will be able to view orders for Inpatient MRI procedures in the depot and assist with the scheduling process. This document outlines the entire process.
  • Anesthesia Snapboard - (Handout) The Snapboard is used to assign Anesthesia resources to rooms and cases.

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