About the MAR, or drug chart

To view a list of medications, from your patient list, select a patient. Select Chart.

1. From your patient list, select a patient.

2. Select Chart.

3. Select a filter to filter by type.

   Filters are at the top of the medication list.

   

   The full name of the medication filter appears below the filters. You can only see one filter at a time.

   

4. To remove the filter, select the filter title.

   

To view the prescription timeline, from your patient list, select a patient. Select Chart then select a prescription.

A chart opens. This is more like the MAR of a desktop.

• Swipe left and right to see future and past doses.

  You can see today, the previous five days, and the next five days. Medications with start dates more than five days in the future do not show any due dose information.

  

• Select any cell that is not crossed out to see a list of actions.

  

• Select cells marked * to view comments.

  

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

2. To view the MAR, select .

   

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

The default view shows the MAR.

• The MAR shows a view of nine days. The past five days, the current day, and the upcoming three days are all on one screen. The current day is highlighted.

  

• The MAR is grouped into five sections: Stat and Once Only, Regular Medicines, PRN, Continuous Infusions, and Fluids.

• Fluids, Continuous Infusions, and Stat and Once Only prescriptions remain on the MAR for 48 hours after administration. Then they are then moved to Stopped.

• Prescriptions with only parenteral routes are highlighted with a teal bar on the left.

• If a prescription contains an enteral route, no bar is shown. If a prescription includes both enteral and parenteral routes, no teal bar is shown.

• All administration events are visible on the MAR. If a medication has been given, the time it was administered is displayed.

  

You can change the display in three ways.

ARR refers to the arrival status. This is a four-stage process:

TTO refers to the TTO status. This is a five-stage process:

Depending on your organisation, if a patient is not prescribed a certain medication, a red alert tag appears.

• If a patient is not prescribed an anti-coagulation medication, you see a red alert tag showing NO COAG. The alert tag does not depend on the VTE risk assessment.

• If a patient is not prescribed oxygen, you see a red alert tag showing NO O2.

Medication summaries can filter the MAR for prescribed medications and paused medications. To filter medications, select one or more medication abbreviations. Selected filters are underlined. To return to the standard view, select all underlined filters.

Symbols on the MAR

Prescription symbols on the MAR

Some information is shown by a symbol next to the prescription on the MAR.

To view details of a medication or fluid, including details and history of the prescription, the order history, administration events, and pharmacy actions, select a medication on the MAR.

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

2. Select .

3. Select a medication.

   The events log The events log has details of prescribing, administration and ordering are included. You can access it by selecting a medication name from the MAR or outpatient prescription list. is shown.

   Read more about the events log

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

2. Select  > Show drug chart from previous visit.

3. Select a MAR from Previous visits listed.

4. The MAR from a previous visit appears under Stopped Medications. The date of discharge is displayed on the top row.

   

5. To return to the current MAR, select  > Show current episode.