Table 1.

Clinical task classification

Clinical task	Definition
Review chart	Reviewing the medical chart, allergy, height, weight, health insurance, or other patient information.
Prepare drug	Reading medication order to select drug.
Administer drug	Recording that a drug has been administrated.
Unchart drug	Removing documentation of drug administration (eg, because it was recorded prior to actual administration and the drug did not end up being given to the patient).
Witnessing drug	Confirming that preparation of a restricted drug, or another special drug, has been checked.
Ordering drug/test	Writing up a new medication order or ordering a test.
Changing/canceling drug	Changing drug order details or canceling a drug order.
Viewing results	Looking at a patient’s test results.
Generating discharge	Writing a discharge summary.
Reorder drug	Extending the length of a drug order.
Drug information	Looking at drug information.
Documenting allergies	Documentation of a patient’s allergies.
Documenting others	Documentation of other information relevant to medication orders (eg, height, weight, blood glucose).
Copying medication order	Copying medication orders from paper to PowerChart.