Prescribing

With Nervecentre EPMA you can prescribe in a range of ways on a mobile or on a desktop. Alerts, notifications about drug interactions, and other information help you prescribe safely.

This section explains how to prescribe medications, fluids, and order sets, how to prescribe if you're part of a PGD Patient Group Directions. These provide a legal framework that allows some registered health professionals to supply and administer specified medicines to a pre-defined group of patients, without having to see a prescriber, such as a doctor or nurse prescriber. PGDs vary depending on your organisation. group, how to add planned medications before a patient is admitted, and how to edit, pause, and stop prescriptions.

Here are some articles to get you started.

Get familiar with prescribing

• Learn about the prescribing pages of your mobile or desktop

What you must do before you can prescribe

Before you prescribe, there is information that must be either completed for the patient or formally overridden with a reason.

• Read about what to do before starting a prescription

Prescribing medications or fluids

Depending on your organisation, you might prescribe using completely or partially pre-filled prescriptions called dose sentences, prescribe completely from scratch, or prescribe several medications at once with an order set.

• Read about all the different ways to prescribe