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Prescribe a medication

This flow describes how to prescribe a medication for a patient during an open encounter in MANSOQ. Pre-requisites - The patient is registered in MANSOQ, and you record the medication for that patient. - The encounter is open. You cannot…

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Overview

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

Pre-requisites

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. MANSOQ 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

MANSOQ 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

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Source evidence

References are pinned to the private MANSOQ source repository. Repository access is required to open these links.