The main function of this option is to be able to view and manage the preparation of the doses corresponding to the prescriptions made by the doctors (daily or in shifts), and then deliver them to the nurses so that they apply them to the patients.
How to use it?
Having a prescription to fill made by a doctor or nurse. Go to the Pharmacy Dashboard and use any of the fields to search for your patient and then select for the medicine to prepare.
Once the prepared medications are delivered, they will appear in the eMAR option on the doctor's or nurse's dashboard to be administered to the patient.
What you should know?
Configurations
To use correctly the pharmacy dashboard, some options must be activated in the "Access" section of the "Improvements Settings" window:
Nursing Charges in eMAR: By selecting this option, the charge for the medication to the patient/insurance will be made at the time the nurse administers the medication.
Inventory Management: Mark this option if you want the pharmacy to validate the existence of products (The option "Medication quantity must be in stock for eMAR" automatically appears and is marked)
Rules
When choosing the In-Hospital Pharmacy configuration, if the nurse profile needed medications, should make your request from the "orders" option of your Nursing Dashboard. No longer from the "Product Request" option
When modifying the prescription due to change: The System creates a new prescription with the user's name and cancels the previous one. You can see it in the Orders/Medications and in the Administration of Medications sections.
Additionals functions
1. See doses informaton per day off all patients
2. See deliver or requested products
3. See doses of the Next 3, 5 or 7 days
4. Actions related to the patient such as:
View the patient's Electronic Health Record EHR
Attach a file
Put observations or Diagnoses to the patient
See Educational Resources.
To view these options, just mouse over on the patient photo
5. Medication-related actions such as:
Edit prescription
Minipackaging
See product information
See dispensed medications for the patient
Print labels
To see these options, simply click on the medicine's context menu
Note
If you wish to see the confirmation process for returned meds, click the button below:
Warnings
When trying to deliver a medication that you have not assigned stock, the following warning will appears.
Updates
May 29, 2023
Add package serial number for prepared drugs from lot
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Date: March 23, 2022.