Order Medications and Write Prescriptions for Discharge Meds

This form can be completed by an MD, PA, NP, RN, or medical student. If completed by an RN or medical student, it must be cosigned. For additional information, see the Overview of Discharge Orders, Instructions, and the Patient Care Referral Form.

Face Sheet Discharge Orders and Instructions are not available in the newborn nurseries. You cannot access the forms, even if you select a patient from the associated maternity unit lists or from patient lookup.

• If you haven't already:

1. Select the patient and click Face Sheet Discharge (ALT+F) or Discharge (ALT+G).

2. If needed, click the Medications folder to access the form.

• Add medications to the list from the Pre-Admission Medications List (PAML)—no comparison views

• Verify reconciliation of PAML and discharge medications—no comparison views

Discharge orders cannot be signed as final (that is, "the patient is ready to go") until the PAML is signed as PAML Creation: Complete, and the statement described next is checked off.

1. Click to check Discharge meds reviewed/reconciled with the PAML meds.

2. If the PAML is not signed as PAML Creation: Complete, you will be notified. Click OK (ALT+O) to open the PAML builder. (See Signing the PAML Creation: Complete, with additional information on updating the list.)

Exiting the PAML automatically returns to the Discharge Meds page. The verification remains checked only if the PAML is signed as PAML Creation: Complete. If you cannot sign the PAML as complete, you cannot check off the statement, and you cannot sign the discharge orders as final ("patient is ready to go").

• Reconcile pre-admission (PAML), inpatient, and discharge medication orders—Side-by-side Comparison

• Reconcile pre-admission (PAML), inpatient, and discharge medication orders—Vertical Comparison View

• Write orders for additional medications

• Provide anticoagulation therapy data

• Edit Discharge Med Orders—Side-by-side or Vertical Comparison views

• Write prescriptions for medications

• Print prescriptions for all medications with the Rx column checked

• To write and print prescriptions for services, equipment, and supplies, see Writing Prescriptions for Services, Equipment, and Supplies for Discharge.

• Change prescriptions for medications

• Access Knowledge Link:

• Click .

• Click Exit (ALT+E) to close KnowledgeLink.

• Click Pop Out (ALT+P) to open KnowledgeLink in a separate window from the CAS.

• Toggle between Order Entry and KnowledgeLink by clicking the icons in the taskbar.

• Click to close the KnowledgeLink window.

• Complete the Face Sheet, Order Info, and Services forms if applicable. See also: Instructions for Discharge Orders and Instructions .

• Save the changes, and finalize the orders if the patient is ready for discharge:

1. Click Save.

2. Type your signing key in the field provided.

3. Click Yes or No to indicate whether the patient is ready to be discharged. If Yes, click one or more checkboxes to sign off on the discharge.

4. Click OK (ALT+O).