Pharmacy

Manage a prescription

Group medication requests into prescriptions and switch between one prescription and All Prescriptions.

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Before you begin

The patient is registered in MANSOQ, 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.

1. Create a prescription

Create a prescription when you prescribe a medicine.

Prescribe a medicine for the encounter.
Choose to add the medicine to a new prescription.
Enter a name for the prescription.
Enter a note for the prescription. The note is optional.
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

Open the encounter.
Select the Medicines tab.
Select the Prescriptions sub-tab.

MANSOQ 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. MANSOQ shows only the medicines that belong to that prescription.
Select All Prescriptions. MANSOQ shows every medicine of every prescription of the encounter.

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.

Expected Outcome

MANSOQ 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.

Version and facility configuration

This procedure is grounded in the repository’s version 3.1 user guide and the audited source revision. Available encounter types, required demographics, terminology, permissions and enabled services depend on your facility configuration. Use the labels and access controls on your own instance; the source references below identify the documented implementation.

Source evidence

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