Clinical Check
A patient's prescription can be clinically checked upfront, pre-confirming the prescription prior to dispensing. When dispensing the prescription, warnings, contraindications and interactions are confirmed allowing you to finish the dispense and print the labels quickly.
You can dispense a prescription without clinically checking it upfront, in this case the warnings are confirmed during the dispensing process.
To perform a clinical check on prescriptions:
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You can check an individual prescription or multiple prescriptions for the same patient, either:
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From the Prescriptions screen, select ACTIONS - Clinically Check next to the prescription you want to check:
Training Tip - You do not need to select a patient to select this option. -
From the Prescriptions screen, highlight one or more prescriptions for the same patient and then select BATCH CHECK
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If the patient is unmatched or partially matched a warning displays depending on the option selected:
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The Prescription Details screen displays all the prescribed items for the patient, including the GP directions and label cautions:
Check the details are correct and if required you can do the following:
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Select NEXT
to proceed to the Warnings screen.
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The Warnings screen displays:
The screen is split into three tabs, Major Warnings, Minor Warnings and Potential Warnings. Select each tab in turn and then select VIEW INFORMATION
to display the warning details.
Note - The Potential Warnings tab only displays if Patient does not have the condition is selected on the Interactions & Contraindications section of the Pharmacy Details - Checking tab. See Pharmacy Details - Checking for more details. -
For a High Risk Drug Alert Major Warning you must view and confirm the prescription warning from the High Risk Drug Alert Information screen, select CONFIRM AND CONTINUE
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The High Risk Drug Alert is confirmed. Select CLOSE
to close the screen.
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All Major Warnings must be confirmed before you can proceed. To confirm a Major Warning select Confirm
or press F11 on your keyboard:
The status changes to Checked:
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To confirm all Major Warnings at the same time select CONFIRM ALL
or press Ctrl + F11 on your keyboard:
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Once all warnings are confirmed select COMPLETE CHECK
or press F12 on your keyboard.
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Pharmacy Manager returns to the Prescriptions screen and the Clinical Check column updates to display the prescription(s) as Checked:
