Recording medication supply

If you provide medication to a patient or their carer from your stock, record a supply record for the medication.

Tip:
If your health service uses medication requests, you can also supply patient-specific inventory supplied by an external pharmacy to a patient. For more information, see Supply Medication Requests.
If you want to print labels for the supplied medication, you must first configure the system and the provider profile:
  • Select File > System Parameters > Clinical tab, and in Medication Labels:
    • Set Enable label printing
    • Set Print labels by default
    • Add a value to the Default label count field
  • Select File > Printer Assignments, select Medication Labels and from the Medication Label Template list, select a template.
Tip:
Medication labels can only be printed for medication orders. They cannot be printed for prescriptions or medication requests.

Supply does not affect the Imprest.

To record the supply of a medication:
  1. In the Clinical Record, select Medication iconMedication > Admin supplyAdminister & Supply.
    Tip:
    To review the history of medication supplied to the patient, click Medication overview iconMedication Overview.
  2. Expand the medication that you want to add a supply record to.
  3. In the Supply Quantity and Units fields:
    • Enter the amount of medication supplied, including fractional amounts where required
    • Select the medication units
  4. From the Supply Mode list, select how the medication was supplied.
  5. In the Supply Notes field, enter any pertinent notes.
  6. If you want to print labels to attach to the medication, in the Print Labels field, enter the number of labels required and click Print Labels iconPrint Labels.
  7. Click Save.
A supply record is added to the Progress Notes. The record shows the Supply medication iconSupply Medication icon, the date, and the word <Supply>. For example:
Example supply progress note

An entry is also added to the Detail tab, the Rx - Supply class tab and the Medication topic tab.