Anaesthetists using the Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network (SCHN) eMM have a separate witness account, which enables self-witnessing of medications on the MAR.
- Click on the MAR in the Patient Chart menu
- The MAR screen opens
- Click on the task for the medication that is due
- The Charting for: Patient Name window opens
- Your name will populate the *Performed by field
- If the field *Witnessed by is yellow and mandatory, you will need to self-witness
- Type your “surname-w” in the *Witness by field
- This will prefill with your full witness account name
- Enter all relevant fields. Mandatory fields are yellow
- Click the green tick to sign
- First enter your witness account password. Then enter the password for your primary account.
- Note: the generic password for all witness accounts before a password reset is Orange11
- The task appears as complete on the MAR
- Click Refresh
- The task is now documented as given on the MAR. The last administration time of the medication is displayed in the next administration task.
- If it is a ONCE only medication it will turn grey and fall to the bottom of the list
If you are an anaesthetist and do not have a witness account to Self-Sign medications, please contact IT Service Desk on 98450333.
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