Reschedule Surgeries

On the Surgery Sched template, you can reschedule existing surgery orders.

1. On the Surgery Sched template, expand the Place Order panel.
2. Select the Reschedule check box.
   A message appears stating that you can reschedule the surgery order only once, and you cannot combine a revised order with a rescheduled order.
3. Click OK.
   The Add New Task window opens. On the Surgery Sched template, a message appears next to the Reschedule check box stating that the surgery is rescheduled, and fields appear for the following:

   • Documenting the reason for rescheduling the surgery order
   • Creating tasks for the clinical staff, coordinator, physical therapy, or orthotics and prosthetics schedule
   • Displaying your name, and date and time when the surgery is rescheduled
   • Generating rescheduled surgery document
   • Documenting new date of surgery and admit date

   

4. Assign a task to the desired user on the Add New Task window that opens.
5. Click the Reason field, and select the reason for rescheduling from the list.
6. To create a task for the clinical staffs, coordinator, physical therapy, or orthotics and prosthetics schedule, click the corresponding icon.
7. To generate rescheduled surgery document, click the icon.
8. Click the NEW DATE OF SURG field, select the new date of surgery from the calendar window, and then click OK.
   The NEW ADMIT DATE field is automatically filled with the new date of surgery. You can change the new admit date, if needed.
9. If you need to add the patient to a wait list or their surgery is rescheduled, click Add to Waitlist to send the patient’s information to the Wait List template.