Adding Medication

To add medication from your iOS device:

1. From the Home screen, open a patient record, see Searching for Patients for details if required.
2. Open an appropriate encounter, see Opening an Encounter for details if required.
3. Enter part of the drug name in the dynamic data entry bar, as you type, the smart list offers items that best match your entry.
4. Swipe up or down to go through the list and select the item you require:

   

   Note - You can enter part of the drug name and strength to refine results, for example, Amo 500.
5. The Prescribe screen displays:

   

6. Complete or update the following as required:
   • Class - Update the drug class if required.
   • Dosage - Complete as per your practice protocols, depending on the item, this may be populated for you from the Gemscript drug dictionary.
   • Preparation - Update if appropriate, depending on the item, this may be populated for you from the Gemscript drug dictionary.
   • Quantity - Complete as per your practice protocols, depending on the item, this may be populated for you from the Gemscript drug dictionary.
   • Repeat Medication - Select the slide bar to make this prescription a repeat:
     • Number of repeats - Enter the number of repeats you are authorising, and/or
     • Repeat until - Enter a date to inactivate this repeat master, if required.
     • Sync with existing repeats - Select to synchronise this repeat master with this patient's other active repeats.
     • Also create an acute - Select to create an acute prescription as well as a repeat master.
   • Advice for patient - Enter any comments for the patient regarding this medication if required, these print on the right-hand side of the prescription.
   • Notes for pharmacy/pharmacist - Enter any comments for the dispensing pharmacy/pharmacist regarding this medication if required, this prints on the left-hand side of the prescription.
   • Date and time - Defaults to today and now, update as required.
   • Authoriser - Defaults to:
     • The clinician logged on, or
     • The Usual GP if a non-clinician is logged in, select to update if required.
7. Select Continue and the prescribing decision support displays. You can add any override comments required under the warnings:

   

8. Select Prescribe .
9. The prescription must now be either, handwritten or the patient can visit the surgery to collect it. Once the encounter is saved, the prescription is added to Vision 3 with the print item box selected ready to print.