CHALLENGE: For hospitals of all sizes, accurately documenting a cardiac arrest is complicated by the lack of consistency. Although HaysMed had a standardized paper form for code blue documentation, the urgency of patient care took priority over finding the form. Nurses used whatever they could grab to record key details during a code, writing times and notes on a white board, a paper towel or the leg of their scrubs. After the code, the recorder would transfer scribbled notes to the EMR. Times were dependent on the clock in the room or someone’s wristwatch. Details of specific interventions could be lost if not written down or overlooked while entering data into the EMR. In addition, the EMR system did not allow nurses to record a medication until it had been ordered and processed th

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