A major benefit of Crib Notes™ is improved interdisciplinary communication with the ultimate goal of enhancing patient care. Crib Notes™ provides a range of innovative processes to accomplish this:
- To Do List
- Supports comprehensive lists for scheduling of future lab, X-ray tests, eye exams, consultations and other tasks.
- Alerts users about upcoming as well as overdue activities.
- Ensures important tasks are not overlooked.
- Supports both Nursing and Clinician To-Do's
- Faxed Notes and Discharge Summaries
- Automates physician faxing through integrated fax server for transmission of Admit Notes, Review Notes, Discharge Summaries and other documents. Faxing is as easy as printing and accomplished through the same workflow.
- Creates Discharge Summaries as CCD documents for distribution to the family, hospital e-HIM system and referring or future physicians.
- Compliance Tracking
- Automatically generates patient alerts for Jaundice Management, Trends Reviews, Out-of-Range Parameters and other applications.
- Alerts nurses when configurable Pain Score documentation is required. Places a hard stop at a specified time interval on all other documentation until the Pain Score is entered.
- Provides hourly rounding documentation and reporting for compliance with JCAHO and hospital standards.
- Breast Milk Identification & Verification
- Provides integrated breast milk verification tied to feeding documentation.
- Tracks staff for compliance with standard pre-feeding documentation.
- Notes staff failure to document breast milk for individual compliance review.
- Supports discharge breast milk scanning to ensure each baby receives the correct milk.
- Patient/Parent Education Documentation
- Offers extensive family education management module.
- Functions as a document repository for standard teaching materials and resources.
- Communicates support material (documents, PowerPoint presentations, videos) as an on-screen display, e-mail or print out for family distribution.
- Relates educational tasks to specific criteria such as birth weight, gestational age, and sex-specific criteria.
- Safeguards rarely used tasks which can be available in specific situations.
- Care Planning Documentation
- Alerts staff about required care paths updates.
- Offers extensive care path customization options.
- Procedure Documentation
- Automates nursing and clinician procedure documentation.
- Provides customized check-lists to ensure complete documentation of all parts of procedures.
- Requires documentation of any deviation from the check-lists before allowing completion of a note.
- Referring/Consulting Physician Communications
- Clinicians are able to send reports to appropriate referring MDs/consultants.
- Supports consultant documentation for ready availability to all staff.
- Family Communications
- The innovative Crib Mail™ system provides an effective, creative and engaging way for parents to wake-up and get updated on their baby.