We've been taking feedback and made some enhancements to the Medications extension module with the following updates or new feartures
If you do not know how the Medications module works then you can click here to see Medications Module User Guide.
! REACH Medications is an Extension Module that requires an additional subscription fee of $1.50 per student per annum (min $250 per portal).
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OTC time adjust
Editing or adjusting the time that an OTC medication is being administered is a new feature added to the OTC administering screen.
The "time" field is added to the administering details panel and system administrators can decide which staff have the ability to adjust time when administering OTC medications.
Control WHO can edit time
System administrators can determine "who" has permission to adjust times in the administering panel in the Accessibilioty settings (Medical) of each user or group of users.
Pause or Cease scheduled medications
An Actions button has been added to the Scheduled Medications dashboard that allows you to either:
Pause a medication for a period of time.
Pause will prevent the scheduled medication from displaying on the Scheduled Medications dashboard until the expiry of the pause setting.
Cease a scheduled medication
Ceasing a medication will update the expiry date of the medication to the current date so that the scheduled medication will no longer appear on the Scheduled Medications dashboard.
Medication Contraindications
A contraindication is a condition or factor that serves as a reason to withhold a certain medical treatment due to the harm that it would cause the patient.
Adding Contraindications when creating medicines
When creating a medication in REACH you can now create user defined contraindications that will generate caution alerts or prevention when administering a medication to a student.
Example 1 Panadol will contraindicate with itself if attempting to be administered < 4hrs apart.
Example 2 Paracetamol may contraindicate with some cold & cough mixtures which have Paracetamol as an ingredient.
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Contraindication settings
Contraindications are a relationship that is set between two medications or for a medication against itself for administering, dosage or time controls.
A Contraindications message will be displayed when the contraindication rule is triggered. Relative contraindications can be set to deliver a caution message (soft restriction) whilst Absolute contraindications can be set to prevent a medication from being administered (hard restriction)....
How to Add Contraindications
When adding or editing a medication click the Add button in the Contraindications section at the bottom of the medicing profile.
- Select the medication you want to set as the contraindication
- Set the Rule Time for the contraindication. This rule works with the logic "if < x hours then" implement the restriction set in (3)
- Set the Restriction method (Hard or Soft).
- a Hard restriction will prevent the intended dosage from occurring
- a Soft restriction will provide a caution or warning alert only and will not prevent the intended dosage from occurring
- Set the Description. Describe why the contraindication exists or a description of your Rule.
- Set the Message. This is the message that will be provided to the user that is attempting to administer the medication to the student.
