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User’s Manual
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Pay close attention to the ‘Last date’ on refills. Medications are routinely re-ordered at times when another full
container is in the med room!
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Keep in mind that sigs on MAR’s will normally only print three (3) lines of directions, therefore edit your sigs
accordingly.
Be sure to discontinue orders in the profile as the occasion arises. Otherwise, your MAR’s and physician orders will be
inaccurate.
NON-DRUG ORDERS
Orders such as physical therapy, routine statements, lab orders, etc. can be entered through the ‘Patient Order’ screen. These
orders can then be printed on several different physician order sheets. You can also enter ‘Standing Orders’ for nursing home
patients. Whenever a new patient is admitted to the facility, you may copy these orders to the new patient’s ‘Patient Orders’
section, thereby saving yourself considerable time in making the same repetitive entries.
PRINTING PHYSICIAN ORDERS/MAR’s
Physician Orders can be printed at any time from the ‘report menu’ screen. Select ‘Med-Sheets (MAR)’, you can specify how to
limit your printing as follows:
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Specify a Rx date range to extract.
Specify a date to print on the MAR sheet
Limit to a specific a nursing home.
Request whether you want print Treatment, Maintenance and PRN medications on its own page.
Limit to a specific Rx category.
Limit to a specific nursing facility wing, floor or room.
Limit to a specific patient.
All Rx that fit the specified criterion will be printed.
HOW TO WORK WITH FACILITIES.
To work with the Nursing Home or Facilities, you must first create a record of the Nursing Home or facility. Then assign the
Facility to the patient.
CREATING A FACILITY RECORD
From the menu, select “File”, then select “Homes/Facility”. The screen will appear to allow you to create, edit or delete a
Facility record.
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