Common Medications Template Maintenance

Use Medication Template Maintenance to maintain templates containing up to 18 of the most common medications that a Provider may prescribe during patient encounters.  A medications template allows you to quickly enter patient encounter information during the Patient Medications and Allergies Window.  You can maintain a single Medications template or as many medications templates as desired including templates that can be used for condition-specific situations such as, diabetes or glaucoma.  There is a medications list to choose your medications from.

Notes:

• NDS recommends that your practice establish a standard list for the most common medications maintained as the Standard Medications Template.  You should assign STD as the Template ID and assign Standard as the template name.

• The green buttons at the bottom of the Medications Template window are reserved for future use.

• For more information about working with data in fields, see the Data Entry Guidelines.

Directions:

To see directions for...

• Opening Medication Template Maintenance, click More.

   

  1.  Click Setup from the EPM Desktop.

  2.  Click Common Meds from the Setup menu.

   

  Common Medications Template Maintenance Window Example:

  

   

• Creating a New Medication Template, click More.

   

  To create a new record, click New  from the Toolbar.

  Tip:  To indicate that you are building a new complaint template, the window clears, the cursor stops at Template ID to begin entry.

  Common Medications Template Maintenance Prompts Tip:  To see more information about a field, click the hyperlink for the field name.
  Template ID	Enter the unique identifier for the complaint template.
  Save	CAUTION All entries are automatically saved without further actions.
  	To view all of the existing common medications templates, click List.  From the list you can select the record to change or delete.
  Template Name	Enter the name for the medications template.
  Common Medications	To build a template list of common medications: Enter the first common medication to be included in the template followed by a comma and a space (, ). Press [TAB] to the next line, then enter the next medication in the list.  Continue in this fashion until the list is complete. Notes:  Each line item in the list must end with a comma and a space (, ). If you do not know the Medication name you can search the Medication List for the appropriate medication.  See below.
  Medication List	To find the appropriate medication: Scroll down the Medication List until you find the appropriate code. Click to highlight the code. Right-click and click Copy. Or, press [CTRL + c]. To paste, click in the appropriate field, then right-click and select Paste. Or, press [CTRL + v].
  	To return to the Setup menu, click Back To Setup.
  	To return to the Providers menu, click Back To Providers.
  	To launch the Medications file window where you can view medications detail, click Open Meds File.

   

• Editing an Existing Medication Template, click More.

   

  CAUTION:  All entries are automatically saved without further action.

  1.  To display the record to be changed, enter the Template ID and press [TAB].
  Tip:  If you do not know the Template ID, you can click List  to see a list of templates.

  2.  To position the pointer to the information that you want to change, press [TAB] or click the field using the mouse.

  3.  Enter the data changes.

  4.  To complete the edit process, click in any white space in the window.

   

• Deleting an Existing Medication Template, click More.

   

  1.  To display the record to be deleted, enter the Template ID and press [TAB].
  Tip:  If you do not know the Template ID, you can click List  to see a list of Diagnoses and Treatments templates.

  2.  Click Delete from the Toolbar.

  3.  At the Delete Records prompt, click Delete to delete the record, or click Cancel to escape from the delete routine.

  Example:

  

   

  Note: After you click Delete, the record is deleted.