The first step in preparing for medication dispensing is to build your register of Medications. This is the list of medications that are available in your Reach portal for students to take.
All of your medications need to be added to the Medicines Register before they can be administered to students. Once they are added to your Medicines Register they are then available to be assigned to students for prescription medications (PMO) or, in the case of Over the Counter medications (OTC), permission can be granted to the student to take the OTC.
OTC Permissions
Granting permisison for students to take OTC medications can be done by staff or parents.
Every medications that is added to your medications register will have some basic and common information that is used to control how it functions is the medications module. These data components are
Which type of medicine the medication is
Prescription medications are referred to as PMO medications
Over the Counter medications are referred to as OTC medications
Which category the medication belongs to
You can control the categories of medication that you make available in your System Configuration > Lookups settings.
Where to find it: Go to System Configuration > Medications
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