Flows/Record a medication statement

flowmedicationsCARE 3.0+

Overview

This flow describes how to record a medication statement for a patient in Care.

The patient is registered in Care, and you record the statement for that patient.
The patient has an encounter at your facility. Care records every medication statement against an encounter.
The encounter is open. Care blocks the record when the encounter status is Completed, Cancelled, Discontinued, or Entered in Error.
You have the permissions listed below.

Permission	Access
Can view questionnaire responses on patient	Lets you open the Updates tab of the patient.
Can submit questionnaire about patients	Lets you open a form for the patient and submit it.
Update Encounter related clinical data	Lets you record a medication statement against the encounter.

Open the patient.

Select the Updates tab.

Select Add Patient Updates. Care opens the form page for the patient.

Enter Medication Statement in the Search Forms box.

Select Medication Statement in the results.

📝 Note

Medication Statement is a patient form. It is not in the Forms list of the encounter.

Select Add Medication.

Search the clinical drug list for the medicine that the patient reports taking.

Select the medicine in the results. Care adds an entry for it.

Complete the fields of the entry.

Components	What it captures
Source	Who reported the medicine: the Patient, a Practitioner, or a Related Person. Care selects Patient by default.
Status	The state of the medication statement. Care selects Active by default.
Dosage Instructions	How the patient takes the medicine. This field is mandatory.
Medication Taken Between	The start date and the end date of the period. The start date is mandatory. Leave the end date empty when the patient still takes the medicine.
Reason	Why the patient takes the medicine. You can enter up to 100 characters.
Note	More information about the medicine.

To record another medicine, repeat step 4 and step 5.

Select Submit.

📝 Note

To finish the form later, select Save as Draft.

Care shows the message "Questionnaire submitted successfully".
Care opens the Updates tab of the patient.
Care shows the medication statement in the Medication Statements sub-tab of the Medicines tab of the encounter.