Please ensure that the patient you wish to enter the dosage dispense for has been assigned to the Nursing Home in which they are resident and that the Nursing Home assigned to the selected patient has a Cycle started.

• To Insert a Dosage Dispense for a Nursing Home Patient:

• Click on the Select button or (Keyboard: Alt + A)

• Select "Nursing Homes" from the 'Filter' dropdown

• select the Nursing Home in which the patient is resident using the 'Nursing Home' dropdown

• This step is not required if your practice only dispenses to one Nursing Home or the Home required has been set as default.
  • Assign a default Nursing Home in the Configuration module, in the 'Application' tab -> Dispensing sub-tab

• Select the patient to dispense to. The PMR Console will open

  • The title of the PMR Console window will read, "PMR Console - Nursing Home Patient:.." and the name of the assigned Nursing Home.

• The below popup will then be displayed. Select MDS Mode

Note: If you select Ad-Hoc mode, Any dispense entered to a dosage patient will NOT be included in their Nursing Home cycle's

• Click New Script (Keyboard Alt + I). The Dispensing MDS Drug Panel will open.

• Select the drug to be dispensed. The Round configuration window will open.

• The Start Date specifies the start date for the Nursing Home Cycle for this dispense.

• The Finish Date for the drug is only used by Nursing Home setups. The user can indicate when a patient will stop taking (course is Finished) and the system will not repeat that item upon repeat of the next cycle.

• The Commencement Date is used to indicate when the patient first started taking this drug. Filled in once by staff and printed on the Kardex.

  • Only required by a few Nursing Homes.

• Tick 'Separate' to indicate that an item is separate, not blistered, delivered outside of the standard packaging. A Drug Label will print for this item in all setups.

• An 'Irregular' item, in the context of our Dosage config screen, means it will not confer with our mathematical check. i.e. one Ventolin inhaler cannot be divided over 7 or 28 days. Separate items are usually Irregular. We have coded a link between Separate and Irregular, so ticking Separate will also tick Irregular.

• Use 'PRN Chart' to indicate that this item must appear on the patients PRN Chart. Fill out the relevant Round Times e.g. Morning, Lunch, Tea etc These rounds are populated from the Rounds specified when creating the Dosage System the patient is using.

• Click OK (Keyboard: Alt + O) to save the Drug and Round information.

• Enter the Dosage instructions

• Additional information can be captured on the MDS tab on the right hand side of the Current Dispense Screen

• Colour, Shape and Letting: Nursing Homes require additional tablet identification. The Colour, the Shape and the Letting (if any) of the tablet can be recorded here.
  • Once you have entered this information for a drug once, it is automatically retained for any future dispensing.

• Click Next or (Keyboard: Alt + N) to enter the next drug

• If all items have been entered for this patient click Complete or (Keyboard: Alt + M)

• The 'Select Cycle and Paperwork' screen will appear

• Specify which paperwork you wish to print with this dispense and click Print

• The selected paperwork will then open in a new tab on your browser