Add New Rx
Add New Rx
This is the same prescription window from the Visit Information tab. (It is also available on the Patient List.)
This window is reactive, and the display will change depending on the choices you make. Your hospital can set certain options to be a default based on your role and your workflows, such as the default pharmacy, or whether you default to a go-home label or an in-hospital MAR.
Go-Home versus In-Hospital Fill Options
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| Pharmacy | A pharmacy location as defined inside VetView. While individual pharmacies can share a physical space, they may be separated in the system to control tracking of the products or to facilitate workflows. For example, your hospital may separate Large Animal and Small Animal prescriptions. |
| Go-Home (Client-Labeling) | Sends a prescription to the selected pharmacy with the intent of going home with the patient. |
| In-Hospital (Administration Record) | Sends a prescription to the selected pharmacy to be filled with internal labeling. Will set the prescription to require a MAR on the current open episode, if it is required for that particular drug. |
| Regular Fill | A Go-Home prescription that is handled at the selected pharmacy with standard labeling. This option is available for both Go-Home and In-Hospital. |
| External Script | A Go-Home prescription that will not be filled at the hospital pharmacy, but a third party pharmacy elsewhere. |
| CDM Fill | A Go-Home prescription that will be filled in its entirety at a CDM machine. Dispensaries can print labels locally, instead of requiring a pharmacy. |
| CDM Order (Patient Profile) | An In-Hospital prescription that is sent to a Controlled Drug Machine and will remain available for fills until all the amount specified has been issued. (This option may not be available at all hospitals, as it must be purposefully turned on within VetView.) |
Other Prescription Options
Aside from the location of the fill and the type of labeling, VetView allows for certain options depending on Pharmacy setup.
Hold Script: This option allows you to request and approve a prescription, but not have it appear on the Pharmacy Fill Queue until a specific day. Use this if the patient has a planned discharge date in the future,
Drug Not In List: Use this option if you are requesting a specific medication or compound that isn't available within your system. This may be set to force the prescription to become an External Fill requested automatically, depending on your hospital setup.
Dispense as Written: Use this option to force this flag to appear on the prescription label. Required in certain states.
Instructions
The area to write the instructions for the staff or owner. If your hospital has Quick Text set up, this may support short hand (e.g. BID and other prescription shortcuts.)
Pre-Defined Instructions
Your hospital can set up the most common prescription instructions for a drug to load automatically once the drug is selected, or to load as a list of available options depending on the patient's age, weight, species, etc. These options appear in the Pre-Defined Instructions section on the prescription request screen. Click on the selection to apply it to the prescription.
Draft Instructions
These instructions are a legacy from UVIS but can still be utilized on prescriptions where they exist. Select the words and quantity, and the prescription request will fill in the Instructions based on your selection when you click on the Draft button.
Quantities
The total quantity, days supply, and refills can be filled in here. These fields may be filled in automatically from the pre-defined instructions. Depending on your selections for the Go-Home or In-Hospital, as well as the specific pharmacy and product selected, these fields can change.
A regular go-home prescription may appear like this:
Whereas the options for a CDM Order (Patient Profile) may appear more like this:
Expirations
VetView tracks two types of expirations - the expiration of the original prescription, and the expiration of any refills. By default, when these expirations are not set for the drug class manually, the expirations will default to one month and one year, respectively. If a pharmacy is set with a shorter expiration, such as six months, those will be used instead. Additionally, the maximum length of the prescription and the maximum number of refills can be defined by drug class or pharmacy based on your state or province's laws.
Withdrawals
For non-companion animals or companion animals used in competitions, you can set a recommended length of withdrawal for that purpose based on the prescription.
Comments and Patient Status
Any additional information that should be sent to the pharmacy, but not necessarily printed on the prescription label, can go into the comments.
For example, Mail Orders can utilize comments to include a mailing address. The patient status flag can be used to note the shipping method or any additional charges.
Other comments could include a patient location for Daily Fills. Patient statuses can be customized by your hospital.
Dose Calculator
This tool can be used by the clinical staff to estimate the correct amounts to prescribe for the patient, based on the patient's species and vitals. (K Constants can be defined by your hospital at the species level.) This section can also be partially disabled by the pharmacy itself, or at the per user level if your student roles should be forced to manually calculate it.
VetView Wiki Most recent releases of VetView: Version 4.2.5 Hotfix (Released 10/31/2024)
To see commonly used terms in VetView Hospital, please visit our Hospital Glossary of Terms.