Creating Standing Orders

A Standing Orders tab in the Group Folder allows a list of Standing Orders to be maintained for the group and assigned to patients as required. Standing Orders are standardized prescriptions or medical directives determined by the facility and can be an array of prescription and non-prescription items, such as flu shots, acetaminophen, a leave of absence from the facility, etc.

Patients can be assigned to an active Standing Order from the Standing Order Detail window. This can be done at the time of creating a new Standing Order, or at a later time by opening the Standing Order Detail window for an existing Standing Order and adding patients. Standing Orders can also be assigned to patients at the time of adding the patient into the group; this is useful when the doctor provides the pharmacy with a list of the patient's Standing Orders upon being newly admitted to the facility.

The details from the Standing Order are used for the prescriptions: prescriber, drug, Qty (the prescription's QA will be the same as the Qty), SIG, days supply, V/W, administration times, and Group Rx Status. Standing Order prescriptions are NEW prescriptions.

An existing active Standing Order can be modified if no prescriptions are linked to it; once prescriptions have been created, the Standing Order can no longer be modified.

When Standing Orders are inactivated or deleted, any linked prescriptions are inactivated. This ensures Standing Orders no longer used by the group are not active at patient level and do not appear on MARs and TMRs.

 

This section contains the following topics:

• Creating a New Standing Order and Assigning Patients

• Removing Patients from a Standing Order

• Inactivating a Standing Order

• Reactivating a Standing Order

• Deleting a Standing Order