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Re: fetal monitor strips and the electronic record From: Richard & Katrina Carter (rkkcarter@zianet.com) Mon Dec 15 18:59:26 2003 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Ilvlucy@aol.com: "Re: fetal monitor strips and the electronic record" Previous message: Greg Kesby: "fetal cerebral ventricles" Maybe in reply to: Mona Seele: "fetal monitor strips and the electronic record" Next in thread: Ilvlucy@aol.com: "Re: fetal monitor strips and the electronic record" Hello, My wife is an L&D nurse at 2 different hospitals. One hospital saves strips & the other uses only the electronic record. These hospitals are in the same town and do within 35 deliveries of one another. I think she prefers to save the paper strips, because you can view long periods of time to see if there is a pattern, esp. of decelerations like lates. One of the hospitals microfiches the strips after a year or two. Anyway, just thought I'd give you her opinion. RDC >----- Original Message ----- From: "Mona Seele" <mseele@tmh.tmc.edu> To: "Multiple recipients of list ULTRASOUND" <ultrasound@dns.obgyn.net> Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 4:44 PM Subject: fetal monitor strips and the electronic record > We have an electronic record for our labor, delivery, recovery, and > postpartum record, but we continue to have the paper fetal monitor > strips during labor and delivery, while archiving the strips for the > electronic record. We are currently discussing whether or not we need > to keep the paper strips. There are conflicting opinions, i.e. > > 1. Nurses document directly on the strip, therefore it is part of the > legal record......if the nurse transcribes the notes from the strip to > the computer it is not necessary to keep the paper strip. > > 2. The paper strip is easier to read than the printed strip from the > electronic record...however, the paper strip quality declines over time > so this advantage is lost over time. > > 3. The strip is necessary so that the health care provider can view a > continuous section of the strip over time. The strip allows you to > identify subtle changes that are not as easy to see on the computer > screen of the printed electronic record. > > What are other institutions doing? > > What is your opinion? > -- > MS > Next message: Ilvlucy@aol.com: "Re: fetal monitor strips and the electronic record" Previous message: Greg Kesby: "fetal cerebral ventricles" Maybe in reply to: Mona Seele: "fetal monitor strips and the electronic record" Next in thread: Ilvlucy@aol.com: "Re: fetal monitor strips and the electronic record"

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