NOTE: When creating a nursing home, Touchstore recommends to always insert a new dosage system and to initial the "Dosage system name" with the initials of the nursing home. This will prevent setting changes for one home affecting another.

Click here to find out How To Insert a New Dosage System For a Nursing Home

How To Add / Create a Nursing Home

• Search for the first patient to be linked to the Nursing Home using the patient search or by clicking F2 on your keyboard and open their PMR

• Click F3 to open the Patient Maintenance screen

• Select the Dosage System tab

• Select Nursing Homes

• Double-click the Nursing Home dropdown

• The 'Maintain Nursing Homes' screen will then be displayed

• Click Insert

• The below screen will then be displayed

• You will need to fill out the following:

  • Name: Name of the Nursing home
  • Address: (optional)
  • Eircode: (optional)
  • Contact Details: (optional)
  • Pre Order Supplier: This allows you to select the ‘pending’ list that you want your nursing home pre-orders to appear on. Pre-orders allow you to order all items required for the next nursing home cycle before you process the prescription. This allows for much greater control of your stock as your nursing home supplies can be stored separately from your normal pharmacy stocks.
  • Dosage System: Select the dosage system in use by this nursing home from the ‘Dosage Systems’ drop-down box. Enter the default Rounds times available for this Nursing Home. The description entered for each Round appears as the round description on the Drug Dispense panel, is printed on the MAR sheets and on the Cassette sheets.

• Select a Report type, you have 2 options.

  • Days Displayed Horizontally - Allows signature of administering nurse per round, per patient. Most secure.
  • Days Displayed Vertically - Allows signature of administering nurse per round, per day only. Less secure.

• When all details are filled out, select OK to save