[Adapted from RxOne Help Revised May10]

Unit Dose Dispensing Overview (How to enter a foil/Blister pack).

Differences between Foil Packs and Other Scripts:

To start a foil pack, select the customer as per normal then use the Foil button on the patient screen rather than the New Script button. In the New Script window Foil Pack will be ticked automatically, as will Phoned Script (this may be unticked if incorrect). Fill in all the information as you would for any other script. These foil scripts will be automatically ticked as Continuous Medication. This is used for bulk dispensing of foils which is described later.

Foil entry screen

The foil entry screen will open automatically and have the following:

Add/remove time Period Button (this is currently not available for Apotex Foils)

This provides the ability to have more columns to handle more frequent time periods.

Eg. Breakfast, Mid-Morning, Lunch, Mid-Afternoon, Dinner, Before Bed.

Zero Pack Option

Provide the ability to zero 1 selected pack of the 4 displayed to allow us to stop dispensing for that week or month for a given item.

Description of Unit Dose Dispensing window

Day Up and Day Down buttons

These change which day is the first day for the foil pack. The day at the top is the first day of the foil even if the days are printed from the bottom of the foil pack upwards.

Script for [28] days.

When OK is pressed, every row with numbers in is extrapolated for the period of the script. For scripts lasting less than 28 days (i.e. 10-day antibiotic script) change this number.

Cancel.

Exits the Unit Dose Dispensing window without making changes to the information. Used mainly when editing a script to look at information.

Zero Pack 1 etc.

Clears all the doses from the grid in view.

Pack1, Pack2, Pack3, Pack4.

Click on these buttons to view each pack contents enabling you to fill in each pack appropriately. Thus if one week/month is not required for dispensing then simply enter zero quantities for this week/month.

Adding/Removing Items from a foil

Adding an Item :

Lookup the individual patient concerned. Dispense the item as you would normally. Once completed bring up the patient details and in the history list highlight all the items including the new Item(s) for the foil. Select the Utilities Menu Group Selected Scripts. Finally Print a duplicate Foil/signing sheet/Label to produce the required output.

Removing an Item:

Lookup the individual patient concerned. In the history list highlight all the items excluding the item(s) no longer required for the foil. Select the Utilities Menu Group Selected Scripts . Finally Print a duplicate Foil/signing sheet/Label to produce the required output.

Duplicate foil outputs

Highlight the foil scripts you need to re-print from either the main dispensing history screen or the individual Patient Details screen. Click on the Print Duplicate button. Tick the outputs you require and click Ok.

Patient Photo

Add the patient’s photo into their patient info file by going to the Patient, select ‘Photo’ tab, then select ‘Add Photo’ and find the photo in your desktop or folder. The photo format can be one of several including jpeg.

If a patient photo is loaded for a patient it will automatically print out on the patients Medication Review.

You can also choose to have it print on the Foil Header.

Note: Medico (Douglas Pharmaceuticals) have advised that photos are not permitted on signing sheets for safety reasons, the reason being that the administrator checks the signing sheet instead of the Medication Chart when giving out the drugs.

Adding photo to Foil Pack Header

From RxOne Start Menu, go to Tools, Printer Setup, Foil Pack Header, Advanced, Modify Label and click on Add. A black line will appear at the end of the Fields table. Click on the first blank field and select Photo, and then add your X, Y, and Length. Try X = 110 Y=11 Length=20. Adjust if necessary. The length will determine how big your photo is.

You may also need to move everything that is printed on the RHS of header to print on the Left e.g. change the X to 40 for those fields. (See below).

To fit more of the photo in, you could reduce the font size of the Foil Pack header to fit the photo in. To do this go back to Tools, Printer Setup, Foil pack header, click on font size and select new font size.

Medication Review Report

This report will print out either automatically or manually:

Exception report

Automatically whenever foils are dispensed, a report will print out for that script for that patient.

Exception report

Manually From the Reports menu, click Medication Review Report. A dialog box will appear prompting to identify the patient. This will default to the current patient.

Signing Sheets

When non-foil medication is dispensed, a section will appear at the base of each signing sheet displaying the signing sheet data for that medication.

'Print weeks'? Switch on by going into Printer set up, foil signing sheets, select type of foil, modify foil and tick 'weeks on monthly pre-printed'.

If switched ON it will print

Breakfast

Week1 Week2 Week3 Week4

Lunch

Week1 Week2 Week3 Week4

If switched off it will print:

Week 1 starting

Breakfast Lunch Tea Bedtime

Week2 starting