Accept eRX Terms and Conditions
In order to create electronic prescriptions, prescribers must accept eRX terms and conditions for each aged care site. As a result, these terms may need to be accepted more than once, when prescribing for a site for the first time. Once Terms & Conditions ’s have been accepted for the aged care organisation, prescribers can continue with prescribing medications, editing existing orders, reviewing charts and re-scripting as required for all residents in the aged care site.
Medication Chart Reviews
Once eNRMC has been enabled for the aged care facility you support, each resident’s medication chart must be reviewed. When the review has been completed, barcodes will be generated and the medication chart is now compliant with eNRMC requirements.
For a resident medication chart to be reviewed, follow the normal process.
When the review process has been completed the active medications in the chart will have a barcode under them, this will then allow the pharmacy to dispense the medication. Barcodes are unique per item.
In case a medication line item has no barcode where it is intended to have, edit the medication line charted and confirm details.
After the medication chart is reviewed you will see at the top left of the mediation chart the label: Electronic Medication Chart, this way you can make sure that chart is under eNRMC rules.
Editing a medication line
If changes in the active medication chart are needed, when editing a medication line item, please note that for most cases a new barcode will be created and a message with the e-script status will be displayed.
Statuses of eScript barcodes
Exhausted: prescription has been fully dispensed
Not fully Exhausted: There are remaining repeats or supply available do be dispensed
Locked: prescription is with dispensing system therefore can’t be edited or cancelled until it is dispensed
Disabled: prescription is invalid, therefore can’t be dispensed
End-of-life statuses: cancelled, ceased or expired. Prescription with these statuses can’t be dispensed
Prescribing ongoing supply for the duration of the medication chart
Electronic chart-based prescriptions can be created in MediMap as:
Ongoing supply for the duration of the chart
Until a specific date for a short-term treatment
Authority Required (Streamlined) items (non-S8) can be prescribed for the duration of the chart and supplied as many times as required to give effect to the treatment duration specified by the prescriber, for this scenario please select “ongoing” in repeats.
Schedule 8 medicines cannot be prescribed for the duration of the chart. In this case, the S8 prescription ceases after the item is dispensed (except for authority approved prescriptions with a longer treatment duration requiring multiple supplies).