[Revised 22 Jan 2020]

Pre-Printed Medication Cards

Print the drug names and instructions on the yellow pre-printed DHB Med cards.

• From the Main Dispensing Screen or the Patient Screen select the group of scripts you want printed on the card.

• Then right click and select 'Print Duplicate'.

• Tick “Print DHB Med Card”

• Put a Yellow DHB Card in the printer

• Select OK to print

• The printer settings that govern the DHB Med Card is found in RxOne Printer Setup under ‘Medication Review’

Non Pre-Printed Med Cards (With Purposes)

This option is different from the 'DHB Med Card'. The 'Non Pre-printed Med Cards' are to print on yellow cards that are pre-printed only on one side. When this option is switched on, it will print the drug names, instructions and the grid lines onto the blank side of the DHB Med cards. This option will also allow you to fill in the dose periods and print thepurpose    

To switch this on, from the Main Dispensing screen, go to Options, Print Options, Use non-pre printed medication card.

Drug Purposes Utility

There are pre-set purposes loaded into the RxOne system. To add more to the list of pre-set purposes:

Setting up and Printing the Yellow Med Card

Select the group of medications* you want to print, then right mouse click to bring up the drop box of selections, select Print Duplicate, Print DHB med card.

A preview page will come up, fill in the dosing details, special instructions and purposes. To select the purposes click on the box to bring up the selection list.  Select the purpose you want printed. Once the set up is complete, select 'print'. (* Use 'group selected scripts' in patient history if need to regroup).

PRN medication

To print a medication under the heading "PRN medication": highlight the item in the patient history, right mouse click and select 'yes' to PRN medication.   

How do I add OTC medications to the card?

Select either 'Add Regular Drug' or 'Add PRN Drug'. An extra blank line will appear on the preview page. Then type in the OTC drug name, select the drug from the selection list.  If the OTC drug is not on the list, simply press escape and it will just use the name as typed in.    

How do I add other dispensed medications to the card from the patient history?

*To add other dispensed medications onto the chart that are not in the group, you can do the above or you can highlight all the medications from the patient history, right mouse click to bring the 'drop box' up and then select 'Group selected scripts', then select print duplicate etc.

Add blank lines to Med Card

Any number of blank lines can be added to the med card to allow space for handwriting extra medications. To create extra blank lines on the card, go to the Printer Setup, select 'Medication Review', 'Advanced' and type in the number of blank lines needed. Once this is set, extra blank boxes will appear on the preview page under both regular and PRN meds on every card.

Export and Loading Report

This med card can be exported and saved and then reloaded on another day. To be able to reload later on, make sure you save it as an *.hs file.