During a medication round, you might need to record different actions for each medication. For example, you might skip a dose or record its administration later. We’ll go over various scenarios to help you do this.
Go to the meds round and click the dose time for the resident.
Record Non-Administered Medication/s
- On the resident’s administration page, click Comment for the medication line.
- Type your own comment or click Comment Quick Select to add an automatic comment.
- Enter any additional information.
- Click Withheld, Refused, or Not Administered based on the reason why you didn’t administer the medication.
If any package medications are refused or withheld, add a comment for each medication. Once you’re finished, click the package line to record the administration of the remaining medications.
- To help you see what you’ve done, the medication line(s) will turn a different colour depending on the reason for non-administration:
- Yellow for medications that are refused or withheld
- Blue if you supplied the dose for the resident to administer themselves
- Red for any medications was not administered
In the below example, one package medication was refused, and one medication was withheld.
Record the Administration for a Single Medication
- For example, if you want to administer a double-sign medication and leave regular medications for later.
In this example, we administer a fentanyl patch.
Firstly, two staff sign the patch out of the controlled drugs book. You then dispense the patch and click the medication line in MediMap.
- Enter the patch administration details and click Administered.
The second sign person enters their username and password, then clicks Checked.
The medication line turns green.
Go back to the current medication round. The patient check box for the dose time is empty, to indicate there are remaining medications to administer.
Add or Edit and Administration Action
- You can only change your own medication administration actions.
On the resident's administration page and click on the medication that you need to edit the action for
- Click on Edit
- Type a brief explanation of why you're making the change, then click the relevant action button.
- MediMap adds the new comment in addition to the previous comment.
- The resident's administration page will be updated.
There is a legend button at the top of the medication administration page to help identify different administration scenarios at glance.
Clicking on the legend button will expand the legend table to describe what each tag and check box icon means. For example, a purple tick means some medication doses were supplied to a resident for self-administration.
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