Flows/Prescribe a medication

flowmedicationsCARE 3.0+

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

This flow describes how to prescribe a medication for a patient during an open encounter in Care.

Pre-requisites

• The patient is registered in Care, and you record the medication for that patient.
• The encounter is open. You cannot prescribe a medication when the encounter status is Completed, Cancelled, Discontinued, or Entered in Error.
• You have write access to the encounter.
• You have the permissions listed below.

Permissions

Permission	Access
Update Encounter related clinical data	Lets you add and change medications for the encounter.

Steps

1. Open the Prescriptions sub-tab

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

📝 Note

Press g then m to go to the Medicines tab.

2. Start a new medication entry

Select the action to add a medicine. Care shows this action only if you have write access to the encounter.

📝 Note

Press k anywhere in the encounter to go straight to adding a medication.

3. Select the medicine

Select the medicine in the picker. The picker lets you search a clinical drug list. The picker also lets you search the facility's inventory.

📝 Note

Which list the picker opens on by default depends on your deployment's configuration.

4. Complete the required fields

Care shows the medicine as a row. Complete the fields in the row.

Components	What it captures
Dosage	The amount of the medicine to give. Required.
Frequency	How often to give the medicine. Required.
Duration	How long the patient takes the medicine. Optional.

5. Complete the advanced fields

Expand Advanced fields to record more detail.

Components	What it captures
Instructions	Directions for the patient or the staff. If the patient takes the medicine as needed, record the reason here.
Route	The route to give the medicine.
Site	The body site for the medicine.
Method	The method to give the medicine.
Intent	The intent of the medication request.
Authored On	The date of the request. You cannot enter a future date.
Requester	The user recorded as the person who requested the medicine.

📝 Note

If you add more than one medicine, you can copy the same requester to all of the medicines at one time.

6. Add a note

To record more detail for one medicine, enter a free-text note for that medicine.

7. Select the prescription

Add the medicine to a new prescription, or add the medicine to an existing prescription for this encounter.

For a new prescription, enter a name. You can also enter a note for the prescription.

For more about prescription batches, see Manage a prescription.

8. Save the medication

Submit the form to save the medication.

📝 Note

Press Shift+Enter to submit the form.

Expected Outcome

• Care saves the medication for the encounter.
• Care shows the medication under the prescription that you selected in the Prescriptions sub-tab.

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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