Medication Dispensing - Re-dose Medication (TenEleven)

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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: A 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.

1. 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.