Medication Orders View Type

To get an overview of the medication orders for the patient to be treated at your care unit or outpatient clinic at any time, you can configure specific worklists (views) in the Clinical Work Station using the Medication Orders view type.

The Medication Orders view type is a central tool for editing medication orders. The view type is available for viewing all order information in one go and calling all available management and editing functions.

Note Note

All management and editing functions for the order are also available in the order dialog.

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Integration

You should note that you can only use the Medication Orders view type properly if you use the Medication module.

Features

Selection Screen

System administrators can configure selection variants to provide the user with the following selection fields for the selection screen:

Institution
Maximum Number of Hits
Manual Input of Selection Criteria
- Goal
  The system administrator wishes to define a view that users can use for making their own selections.
- Example
  A ward manager wishes to create a view of various care units.
- Method:
  When the ward manger selects a view in the LaunchPad of the Clinical Work Station, the system should not immediately compile the order list. The selection screen should appear for the ward manager to specify the ordering OU to which the order list is to relate.
- Prerequisite
  When configuring a view, the system administrator creates a selection variant in which the Man. Entry Sel. indicator is set.
- System Behavior
  When the user – in the present example, the ward manager – calls the view, the selection screen appears first. The selection data from the selection variant is displayed by default. The user can modify the selection data; for example, by selecting a different care unit. After changing the selection criteria you return to the view. The selections you have just made apply. These selections remain active throughout the session (in other words, for as long as you remain in the clinical work station). If you switch to a different view in the meantime, the settings remain in force.
  - Using (Basic Settings) you can reset the temporary changes for a view.
  - The next time you start the clinical work station, the default selections made by the system administrator for the view apply anew.

The selection screen also contains the following tab pages for restricting the selected data:

Order
Patient
Other Characteristics

Order Tab Page

You can enter, for example, the following selection criteria on the Order tab page:

Ordering OU
Ordering Departmental OU
Order Type
Administration Route
Employee Responsible
Consultant
Valid From - To
Creation Period From - To
Purpose
External Medication
Display PRN Medication
Select Order Status

Patient Tab Page

You can enter, for example, the following selection criteria on the Patient tab page:

Patient
Sex
Case
Case Type

Other Characteristics Tab Page

You can enter, for example, the following selection criteria on the Other Characteristics tab page:

Mnemonic (drug key)
Drug Category
Display Narcotic
Display Psychotropic
First Event Planned From - To
Fill Source
Document Status

Function Selection

When you create a function variant for a view based on the view type Medication Orders, the default function list is available to you.

This includes the following functions from the Order and Environment areas:

Orders
- Create Order
- Activate Order
- Display Order
- Change Order
- Copy Order
- Extend Order
- Suspend Order
- Resume Orders
- End Orders
- Cancel Order
- Assign/Detach Order Profile
- Change Order Status
- Create Order Template
- Confirm Changes
- Display Status History
- Print Prescription
Environment
- Create Ad Hoc Event
- Display Diagnoses
- Case Overview
- Display Lab Findings
- Patient Organizer
- Bar Code Scan Administration

For more information about setting up the clinical work station, see Clinical Work Station: Setup..

Field Selection

A specific field selection is available to you for each view type. Layouts enable you to define your own column sequence and sort order in relation to this field selection.

Note Note

If you display fields for quantities, e.g. units, doses, strengths etc, you should ensure that the quantity and the corresponding unit are always displayed adjacent to each other, otherwise it may be unclear to the user which unit belongs to which quantity.

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The field selection for the Medication Orders view type includes the following fields:

Patient Data
- First Name
- Last Name
- Sex
- Age
- Birthdate
- Institution
- Patient
- Case Type
Order Data
- Order Number
- Order Text
- Ordering OU
- Order Type
- Case
- Order Duration
- Consultant
- External Medication
- PRN Medication
- Check Condition
- Infusion Type
- Localization
- Purpose
- Several Flow Rates Defined
- Canceled
Event Data
- Medication Events Exist
- Planned Start Date
- Planned Start Time
- Fill Source
- Administrable Medication Events Exist
- Canceled Medication Events Exist
Medication Data
- Mnemonic (drug key)
- Drug Category
- Dose
- Dose Unit
- Quantity to Be Administered
- Quantity to Be Prepared
- Fill Source
- Administration Duration
- Substitution Allowed
- Witness Necessary
- Can Be Crushed

You can display the complete field selection for the respective view type when you create layouts.