Adding, viewing, and managing arrival medications

You can add medications that a patient is already taking when they arrive in hospital. You can then reconcile the arrival medications with a hospital prescription, or pause the prescription while the patient is in hospital.

Adding, viewing, and managing arrival medications on a mobile

You can search, scan, add from groups.

  1. From Patient list > (select a patient) > Arr on > .

  2. Add by using the search box, scanning, adding from groups, or adding from previous prescriptions. Adding an arrival med works in the same way as adding a prescription.

    Read about starting a new prescription.

  3. Select Submit.

  4. To add another arrival med, select until you reach the search page.

  1. Patient list > (select a patient) > Arr on.

  2. Arrival med status is shown next to the prescription.

  1. Patient list > (select a patient) > Arr on> (select arrival med).

  2. Add note (enter comment) > Add note.

Patient list > (select a patient) > Arr on > (select arrival med) > Quantity on arrival > (enter quantity in free text box) > Back.

Patient list > (select a patient) > Arr on > (select arrival med) > Source of info > (select one or more sources from the list) > Back.

  1. Patient list > (select a patient) > Arr on < (select arrival med) > Modify prescription.

  2. Modify an available field (for example Frequency, DOSE QUANTITY, INDICATION, or INSTRUCTIONS) and select Submit.

Patient list > (select a patient) > Arr on < (select arrival med) > Delete arrivial medicine.

Adding, viewing, and managing arrival medications on a desktop

  1. To add arrival medications, select > Arrived on.

  2. If a patient has no arrival medication, select Med History Complete, then select Reconciliation Complete.

  3. If a patient does have arrival medication, select .

  4. There are several ways to add arrival medication:

    • Start typing the name in Search or scan and press Enter to search.

    • Select Search or scan and scan the medication.

    • Search from the groups and folders.

  5. Select the arrival medication.

  6. Select to view policies attached to the medication.

  7. Enter or select information to complete the form. Mandatory fields are marked .

  8. Select Record arrival medication.

Depending on your organisation, some medications might not be available from Search or scan. You can instead search for the medication using groups.

Groups can be configured to show treatment pathways, groups of medications, or medication types. This gives you quick access to lists of related medications.

  1. From > Arrived on, select .

  2. Select a group in the column on the left, then select something in the next column. The groups allow you to move through clinically configured choices, providing appropriate dose sentences A pre-configured prescription that can present the user with a small number of prescribing options or allow prescribing in a single step. It can include dose, route, and administration guideline..

  1. From > Arrived on, select .

  2. Select Add from previous episodes orAdd from current medicines.

  3. Select the episode from Episodes by start date.

    If adding from a previous episode, you are shown a list of the patient’s discharge medications from that episode.

  4. Select a required medication. Medications showing are already added as arrival medications.

  5. Complete the form and select Record arrival medication.

Arrival medications added from current prescriptions automatically reconcile.

You can see recorded arrival medications on > Arrived on.

  1. To record the quantity of medication brought into hospital, double-click a medication in the Quantity on arrival column.

  2. To record the source of information, double-click a medication in the Source of info column and select one or more options.

    The options you see are decided by your organisation.

    If all arrival medications share the same source of information, you can copy these to all arrival medications rather than entering each individually.

  3. Mouseover the cell under Source of info and select > Copy to all arrival meds to copy to all cells in the column.

  4. To add a note, double-click a medication in the Notes column.

  5. Select anywhere outside a text field or list to return to the main screen.

Select Modify arrival medicine to add or change information about the selected arrival medication.

Select the arrival medication you want to delete, and select from Remove.

You can view all actions relating to arrival medications for the patient's current visit.

  1. From > Arrived on, select Show history.