You can manually document medication dispensed to a patient in your practice.
When you are entering medication information manually, making a selection for a field opens the picklists for the next field. If you close a picklist without making a selection, select the next field that you need to enter information into open the picklist for that field.
- On the MICS Dispensing template, expand the Medication Dispensing panel.
- Select the sub-location, if turned on.
- Select the source in the Source field.
The Medication picklist opens.
- Select the medication being administered in the Medication field.
The MLTS Dbpl Med NDC Lot picklist opens.
- Select the lot number in the Lot Number field.
The DUR check window opens and displays all the possible interactions for a selected medicine.
- Select the interactions you want to acknowledge, enter the reason, and select Acknowledge.
The Number Pad window opens to select quantity.
- Select the quantity being given in the Qty field.
Note: For single dose medications, if you enter the less quantity than the vial amount, a confirmation message appear to confirm wasting the remaining quantity. You must select
Yes.
If you are giving multiple injections to a patient from a single dose vial, document the total quantity in single row. You can enter the location, side, and number of injections in Notes field.
The Administration picklist opens.
- Select the administration, location, and side in the corresponding fields.
- Enter your notes in the Notes field.
- Select Add/Update.