Medications - Viewing Medications to be Administered

This article will assist you with viewing medications to be administered for Children at your Service.

Overview

The Medications & Incidents Screen allows you to:

• Note Medications that have been administered to the Children
• Record Guardian Authorisation signatures
• Send Notifications of administered medications to Guardians
• View Prior Medication forms
• Create Injury Incident/Traumas & Illness Records
• Record, Guardian, Staff & Witness signatures

Viewing Medications to be Administered

To record and advise a Guardian that medication has been administered.

1. Select the Medication & Incident Screen

2. Select the Medications Tab
3. **Search **- Allows you to search on children's names
4. Centres - If you are in Enterprise (multi-centre) view you can select the Centre/s to view the information for
5. Medication From - Will automatically default to today's date, allows you to search on medications for particular dates
6. Filter allows further filter options to be applied.

7. Date - Date Medication is to be administered
8. Child- Name of the child who requires Medication
9. Medication - Name of Medication to be administered
10. Due Time - Time Medication is to be administered
11. Repeat - Displays if Medication is to be repeated
12. Prescription - Will display if medication is prescribed or non-prescribed
13. Acknowledgement- Will display if Guardian has acknowledged the medication
14. Action/Status - Will display the current Administration Status for Staff

• X has not been marked as adminstered
• Acknowledged - has been acknowledged by Guardian
• Pending - Pending Guardian acknowledging medication
• Administered - Medication has been administered by Staff

15. Notes - will display any notes added regarding the medication

Filtering Medications

To refine the Medication screen information.

1. Select the Filter icon

2. Search - Allows you to search on children's names
3. Centres - If you are in Enterprise (multi-centre) view you can select the Centre/s to view the information for
4. Child(s) - Select the Child or Children to view medication details for
5. Medication From - Allows you to search on medications from ar particular date
6. Medication To Allows you to search on medications up to a particular date.
7. Status - Allows you to search on Medication Statuses.

• Pending - Pending Guardian acknowledging medication
• Administered - Medication has been administered by Staff
• Not Administered - Medication Not administered by Staff
• Deleted - Deleted medications

8. Mode - Mode of Medication

• Inhalation (breathed in through mouth or nose) eg Asthma Puffer
• Injection (Injected into Vein)
• Nasal (given into the nose by Spray or Pump)
• Opthalmic (given into the eye by drops, gel or ointment)

9. Acknowledge Status

• Pending Acknowledgement - Pending Guardian acknowledging medication
• Acknowledged - Guardian has acknowledged the medication
• Rejected - Medication request has been rejected by Guardian

10. Show only prescribed medication - Allows you to filter and display only prescribed medications
11. Show only medications with repeats - Allows you to filter on only repeating medications
12. Update Search to apply the selected filters

Updated on: 20/10/2021