Flows/Manage a prescription

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Medications

Concepts

Medication Request

Medication Administration Medication Dispense

Medication Statement

Flows

Prescribe a medication

Manage a prescription Add medications from past records View prescriptions and medications for an encounter Update a prescription

Print a prescription

References

Medication Request

Medication Administration Medication Dispense

Medication Statement

Overview

A prescription is a named batch that groups one or more medication requests for the same encounter. This flow describes how to create a prescription and how to see the prescriptions of an encounter.

Pre-requisites

• The patient is registered in Care, and you record the encounter for that patient.
• You are a member of the facility that manages the encounter.
• If you create a prescription, you prescribe a medicine in the same encounter. See Prescribe a medication.
• You have the permissions listed below.

Permissions

Permission	Access
Update Encounter related clinical data	Lets you create a prescription when you prescribe a medicine.
Can view clinical data about patients	Lets you see the prescriptions of the encounter.
Can Read encounter related clinical data	Lets you see the prescriptions of the encounter.

Steps

1. Create a prescription

Create a prescription when you prescribe a medicine.

1. Prescribe a medicine for the encounter.
2. Choose to add the medicine to a new prescription.
3. Enter a name for the prescription.
4. Enter a note for the prescription. The note is optional.
5. Save the medicine.

📝 Note

An encounter can have more than one prescription. To add a medicine to a prescription that exists, choose that prescription instead of a new one.

2. Open the prescriptions of the encounter

1. Open the encounter.
2. Select the Medicines tab.
3. Select the Prescriptions sub-tab.

Care shows a list of the prescriptions of the encounter. The list shows each prescription by name.

3. Select a prescription

• Select a prescription in the list. Care shows only the medicines that belong to that prescription.
• Select All Prescriptions. Care shows every medicine of every prescription of the encounter.

Expected Outcome

• Care groups the medicine in the prescription that you choose.
• The list shows each prescription of the encounter by name.
• You see the medicines of one prescription, or the medicines of all prescriptions.

Medications

Concepts

Medication Request · Administration · Dispense · Statement

Flows

Prescribe · Manage · From past records · View · Update · Print

References

Medication Request · Administration · Dispense · Statement

Related

• Concept: Concepts/Medication Request
• Reference: References/Medication Request

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