During a medication round, you might need to record different actions for each med. 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 patient.
- First, we’ll show you how record non-administered meds. For example, you might skip or withhold the dose, or the resident refuses to take the med.
On the resident’s administration page, click Comment for the med line.
- Type your own comment or click Comment Quick Select to add an automatic comment.
- Enter information here and highlight words if required
- Click Withheld, Refused, or Not Administered based on the reason why you didn’t administer the med.
If any package meds are refused or withheld, add a comment for each med. Once you’re finished, click the package line to record the administration of the remaining meds.
- To help you see what you’ve done, the meds line(s) will turn a different colour depending on the reason for non-administration:
- Yellow for meds that are refused or withheld
- Blue if you supplied the dose for the patient to administer themselves
- Red for any med was not administered
- Here, one package med was refused, and one med was withheld.
- Next, we’ll use a different patient to show the record of administration for a single med. For example, if you want to administer a double-sign med and leave regular meds 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 med line in MediMap.
- Enter the patch administration details and click Administered.
The second sign person enters their username and password, then clicks Checked.
The med line turns green.
- Go back to the current meds round. The patient check box for the dose time is empty, to indicate remaining meds to administer.
- Now we’ll show you how to add or edit an administration action like correcting a mistake. We’ll use a med that’s been withheld.
You can only change your own meds administration actions.
On the patient’s administration page, click:
Click a med to edit an action for it- Comment to add an action to a med
- Comment to add an action to a med
- 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.
- Go back to see the resident's administration page to see the update for the med.
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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