Procedure documentationCreating Orders for Drug Kits

 

You use this medication order to order drug kits. Drug kits contain several drugs which are ordered together.

The system will create a separate order for each drug in the drug kit. No order is created for the drug kit itself, it simply represents the wrapper for the contained drugs.

Example Example

A drug kit consists of an eye ointment and eye drops. Both these drugs are always prescribed to the patient together in drug kit form. However, you create an order for the eye ointment and an order for the eye drops.

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Prerequisites

You select a drug kit in the drug search or in the order.

Note Note

In customizing you can determine user-specific presettings for order management, to control and preset the data in the order. The system will take into account the presettings assigned to the user when creating an order.

See Maintaining User-Specific Presettings

See Order Management Tab Page

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Procedure

  1. Select a patient in a view in the clinical work station or in the patient organizer and choose Create Order (Create Order).

    Alternatively you can create an order using a corresponding task in the documentation work station.

    You can also create a new order in the order dialog. To do this, choose Create Order (Create Order).

    Note Note

    As the order type results from the order process, the system does not support the transfer of the order type from the order template.

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    Depending on the user parameter N1ME_NO_DRUG_SEL you will access the drug search or the Create Order screen.

    In the drug search you can also search for order templates which you can use as a basis for the order you wish to create.

    See Finding Drugs Using Order Templates

  2. Select the drug kit to be ordered or one or more drugs of the drug kit in the drug search or in the input help of the Drug ID field in the Create Order screen.

    • If you select, for example, a drug kit in the results list of the drug search and transfer this to the order, the system will transfer all the drugs in the drug kit and create a separate order for each. In the background the system will create a connection which determines that these orders belong to a drug kit.

    • If, for example, you select only a drug from a drug kit in the results list of the drug search and transfer this to the order, the system will check whether this patient already has orders for other drugs of this drug kit.

      Depending on the user-specific presettings for a user, the system may use an existing connection between the drugs of a drug kit and the drug kit and assigns the drug to this connection.

      See Order Management Tab Page

  3. Enter the necessary data in the compressed view of the corresponding order for a drug of the drug kit.

    Note Note

    In the compressed view the system displays an order (row) for each drug in the drug kit.

    Depending on the corresponding drug of the drug kit you must enter the necessary data for a standard drug, an infusion, a nutritional solution or a compound.

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    Depending on the user parameter N1ME_ORDGRI_OPENROW the system highlights the opened (selected) order (row) in the Compressed View.

    Note Note

    You can also create an order without an end date. The system creates an order without an end date if you do not enter an order duration or an end date for the order.

    You should note that the system cannot calculate the overall quantity of an order without an end date.

    When generating events the system uses the event generation horizon which is entered in the master data of the corresponding drug (Inpatient tab page). If the event generation horizon is not determined in the drug master, the system uses the value of system parameter N1MEEVTH or, if the system parameter is not maintained, a standard duration of 5 days.

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    See System Parameters for Medication

  4. Choose Detail (Detail) in the row of the order for a drug kit drug in the compressed view, to open this order in the Expanded View.

  5. Choose Change Drug Drug (Change Drug), to have the system propose alternative drugs for the selected order.

    See Changing Drugs

  6. On the tab pages offered in the enhanced view, enter the necessary data for the order of the corresponding drug of the drug kit. The tab pages depend on the type of drug category of the drug kit drug (e.g. tab pages for standard drugs, tab pages for infusions, etc.).

    • Order Tab Page

      When you create an anamnestic order, the system sets the "Anamnesis" value in the Pat. Own Medic. field for the patient's own medication. The system cannot generate events for this anamnestic order. However, this medication may be relevant for clinical interaction checks, which are only possible if an order exists.

      The system presets the organizational units on this tab page using the case.

      You can enter a comment for the order.

      Furthermore you can also create a check condition for the order and indicate that the prerequisite entered there must be checked before a drug can be administered.

    • Sliding Dose Tab Page

      See Sliding Dose

    • Event Tab Page

      You can define a different fill source for the event, e.g. the drug stockroom of the care unit or outpatient clinic.

      Note Note

      Choose Replace Drug for Event (Replace Drug for Event) to call the manual substitution for medication events. See Manual Substitution in Medication Events.

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  7. To add several orders, choose Add Orders Add Order (Add Orders).

    You access the drug search where you can use the corresponding functions (e.g. multiple selection) to create several orders.

  8. To activate one or more orders, select the order(s) and then choose Activate Orders (Activate Orders).

    See Activating an Order.

  9. To generate the events for one or more orders, select the order(s) and then choose Generate Events (Generate Events).

  10. In addition to the events which the system generates for an order, you can also manually create orders. Choose New Row (New Row) on the Event tab page, to create a new event.

  11. To activate several orders in one work step and simultaneously generate the corresponding events, select the orders in the compressed view and then choose Schedule Orders Schedule (Schedule Orders).

    See Scheduling Orders

  12. You can print the order. Choose Print Order (Print Order).

    The Print Preview screen appears.

  13. Save the order.