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 your patient list, select a patient.

  2. Select Arr on.

  3. Select +.

  4. Add the arrival medication.

    To add an arrival medication, you can:

    • Search for the medication

    • Scan the medication's barcode

    • Find the medication using groups

    • Add the medication from previous prescriptions

    Adding an arrival medication works in the same way as adding a prescription.

    Read about adding a new prescription.

  5. Select Submit.

  6. To add another arrival medication, select until you reach the search page.

  1. From your patient list, select a patient.

  2. Select Arr on.

    The status of each arrival medication appears next to the prescription.

  1. From your patient list, select a patient.

  2. Select Arr on.

  3. Select an arrival medication.

  4. Select Add note.

  5. Enter a comment.

  6. Select Add note.

  1. From your patient list, select a patient.

  2. Select Arr on.

  3. Select an arrival medication.

  4. Select Quantity on arrival.

  5. Enter a quantity.

  6. Select Back.

  1. From your patient list, select a patient.

  2. Select Arr on.

  3. Select an arrival medication.

  4. Select Source of info.

  5. Select one or more sources from the list.

  6. Select Back.

  1. From your patient list, select a patient.

  2. Select Arr on.

  3. Select an arrival medication.

  4. Select Modify prescription.

  5. Modify the prescription.

    Read more about modifying a prescription

  6. Select Submit.

  1. From your patient list, select a patient.

  2. Select Arr on.

  3. Select an arrival medication.

  4. Select Delete arrivial medicine.

Adding, viewing, and managing arrival medications on a desktop

  1. From  Inpatients > Patient List > double-click on a patient's name > Patient Detail, select Meds.

  2. Select > Arrived on.

  3. Start to record the patient's arrival medications.

    • If a patient has no arrival medications, select Med History Complete, then select Reconciliation Complete.

    • If a patient does have arrival medications, select .

  4. To add arrival medications:

  5. Select the arrival medication.

  6. Select to view policies attached to the medication.

  7. Enter or select information to complete all mandatory fields on the form.

    Mandatory fields are marked .

  8. Select Record arrival medicine.

You can select items from Groups to move through groups of medications, treatment pathways, and order sets. The groups and folders you see depend on your organisation. Groups and folders 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..

Depending on your organisation, some medications might only be available from groups and so don't appear in text searches.

  1. From  Inpatients > Patient List > double-click on a patient's name > Patient Detail, select Meds.

  2. From > Arrived on, select .

  3. Select a group from Groups.

  4. Continue to select groups until you reach dose sentences.

  5. Select a medication.

  6. Select to view policies attached to the medication.

  7. Enter or select information to complete all mandatory fields on the form.

    Mandatory fields are marked .

  8. Select Record arrival medicine.

  1. From  Inpatients > Patient List > double-click on a patient's name > Patient Detail, select Meds.

  2. From > Arrived on, select .

  3. Select Add from previous episodes or Add from current prescriptions.

    Arrival medications added from current prescriptions automatically reconcile.

  4. 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.

  5. Select a medication.

    Medications showing are already added as arrival medications.

  6. Select to view policies attached to the medication.

  7. Enter or select information to complete all mandatory fields on the form.

    Mandatory fields are marked .

  8. Select Record arrival medicine.

  1. From  Inpatients > Patient List > double-click on a patient's name > Patient Detail, select Meds.

  2. Select > Arrived on.

  3. To add a note, double-click in Notes.

  1. From  Inpatients > Patient List > double-click on a patient's name > Patient Detail, select Meds.

  2. Select > Arrived on.

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

  1. From  Inpatients > Patient List > double-click on a patient's name > Patient Detail, select Meds.

  2. Select > Arrived on.

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

    The options available depend on your organisation.

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

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

  1. From  Inpatients > Patient List > double-click on a patient's name > Patient Detail, select Meds.

  2. Select > Arrived on.

  3. Select Modify arrival medicine.

  4. Modify the prescription.

    Read more about modifying prescriptions

  1. From  Inpatients > Patient List > double-click on a patient's name > Patient Detail, select Meds.

  2. Select > Arrived on.

  3. Select the arrival medication you want to delete.

  4. Select from Remove.

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

  1. From  Inpatients > Patient List > double-click on a patient's name > Patient Detail, select Meds.

  2. Select > Arrived on.

  3. Select Show history.

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