Dispensing both Prescription Medications (PMO) and Over the Counter (OTC) medications is done on the Daily Medications Board. This is a dashboard that is designed to display your list of "required medications" each day and a place where dispensed mediciations can be recorded and listed.
Scheduled Medications are the prescription medications that are required by students for the day. This schedule is based on the Prescribed Medications frequency and dosage information that is set into each student's profile. These will appear in the Scheduled Medications table of your Daily Dispensary Board.
Dispensing Scheduled Medications
Clicking on any of the profiles in the Scheduled Medications table will open the PMO Dispensing Dialogue. Staff will be required to complete this form to record any Scheduled Medications that have been dispensed to students. This form will automatically capture the date, time and staff member that is delivering the medication based upon the login profile of the staff member and the time/date stamp of the device. Staff can write notes relating to the dispensing as part of this dialogue also and it is possible fr the school to make dispensing notes a compulsory field.
When a Scheduled medication is dispensed it will move from the Scheduled table to the Dispensed table on the Daily Dispensary Board.
Capturing Dispensing Staff Identity
Medications dispensing is a critically important procedure that requires accurate identification of dispensing staff. Using generic staff login profiles (eg: Supervisor on Duty) is not adequate record keeping and will expose your school to the risk of not maintaining adequae records. It is vital that staff dispensing medications are logged into REACH with their own profile.