Scheduled Medications and Location Awareness

The Medications module has received some new features as of January 2022, all designed to improve record-keeping and enhance knowledge sharing. This update continues to strengthen the most popular and important extension module within Reach.

Scheduled Medications

Once a medication item has been created within your school's Reach portal and the student has received a prescription for that item or details for the over-the-counter medication required, then it can be added to their personal profile as a scheduled medication item. 

Article: How to setup Medicine Categories / Medication / Conditions

Guide: How to assign Medication to Students

Location Awareness within the Dispensary

The scheduled medications table now shows a location icon that will fetch the details of the selected student, providing details of the current location, current leave status, and the basic details of that leave item.

This feature can be very helpful, for example;

• Students that have departed on approved leave, however, have not had their medication schedule paused

  • The feature provides their basic leave data for you to then pause their medication as per the required date

  • Pausing medication is a quick and simple process completed from within the Dispensary

  • Article: How to Pause Medication in the Dispensary  

• Students that are late to receive their medication, as noted by the alert symbol in the scheduled medications table

  • The feature provides their location, if on-campus, they could be contacted and prompted

  • If they are off-campus,  arrangements can be made for their medication upon their return

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Additional information regarding the Medications Module can be found in the following articles and guides;

Article: Medications Module 

Article: Configuring Medication Alerts 

Guide: Configuring the Dispensary 

Guide: Administering Medications