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Doctors write prescriptions in the Prescriptions panel of an open encounter. The pharmacy then sees them in its dispensing queue. NduMed checks every new prescription against the patient’s recorded severe allergies.

Prescribe a medication

1

Open the encounter

The encounter must not be closed.
2

Fill in Prescribe a medication

  • Drug: the medication name, typed as free text.
  • Dose: for example “500 mg”.
  • Route: Oral, IV, IM, Subcutaneous, Topical, Inhaled, Rectal, Sublingual, Ophthalmic, Nasal or Other.
  • Frequency: for example “three times daily”.
  • Duration and Unit: days, weeks or months.
3

Save

The prescription appears on the encounter and in the pharmacy’s dispensing queue as Not yet dispensed.
Type the drug name as the pharmacy knows it (generic name and strength). The pharmacist matches it to a drug in the formulary when dispensing.

Severe-allergy check

NduMed compares the drug name you type with the patient’s allergies recorded as Severe. If they match, the prescription is stopped and you are warned. If you have reviewed the risk and still need to prescribe:
  1. Select Prescribe with override.
  2. Enter the reason for the override.
  3. Save. The prescription carries an Allergy override badge, and the pharmacist sees your reason when dispensing.
The check matches text. It catches “Penicillin” against a recorded “Penicillin” allergy, but it cannot know that a brand name or a related drug belongs to the same class. Always review the patient’s allergies yourself; they are shown in the Severe allergies banner on the patient record.

Remove a prescription

Select Remove prescription to take a prescription off the encounter while the encounter is open.

Dispensing status

See Dispensing for the pharmacy side.