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Scenario: The nurse dispenses a patient’s medication and gives it to the them. The patient takes their medication and swallows it. Within a few minutes the patient throws up.
What is happening: Medication is dispensed, inventory is reduced, patient takes “some” medication.
What to do: decision must be made by the clinic’s doctor as to whether a re-dose will take place and how much will be re-dispensed. Since the patient has already received their dose for the day the nurse cannot dispense another Clinic dose from the Medication Dispensing Screen. To re-dose medication for a patient, use the Medication Dispensing Admin Screen. Follow the steps below to re-dose medication.
- Click the Window drop-down and select the blank space to clear out the window.
- By clearing the Window, you are preventing the Window from being locked on the Med Dispensing Screen (locked means you can only dispense from that Window on that screen).
- Clearing the Window would thus allow you to dispense from the Admin screen which is required to dispense a Re-Dose.
- Click the Admin Button (on the dispensing screen).
- Click the New button to create a new dose to be dispensed.
- Bottle- Ensure a bottle is selected (If no bottle is selected try to select a different window and then select the window you are dispensing from).
- Window- Select the Window to dispense from.
- Dose (Optional)- Adjust the dose if required (ex. Patient gets 65mg but threw it up, Doc might say re-dose but only give them 30).
- For Date- Select a For Date.
- Dispense Type- Select a dispense type.
- Reason Code- Select a Reason Code for the new dispense.
- Reason- Enter a reason for the name dispense (example patient vomited).
- Click the Add button to begin the dispense.
- Click OK to dispense dose from the dump.
- You will now see two dispenses with the same Dispense Date.