Add a client medication in the Nursing Center, set how it is given, then print the weekly MAR. Mark a stopped drug Inactive instead of deleting the record.
Client medications are recorded in the Nursing Center, not the Client Center. The Medication List is the working list. The Medication window behind it is what the Medication Administration Record and the Medication Profile are built from.
The weekly MAR is Medication Administration Record - Form ES4010. Print it from that list, or from Report Center. There is no Print button on the Medication window itself.
If Medications is greyed out, the user does not have the Edit Medications permission. That is not a broken button. After the permission is granted, the Nursing Center has to be closed and opened again, or the user has to sign out and back in, before the button works.
The left side of the window is the client. The right side shows that client's medications. The banner above the list uses the client's search name.
The medication you add or edit belongs to the client you highlighted. If the client list is empty, nothing opens and no message appears. Set View to All Clients when you need someone who is no longer attending.
The Medication window sits on top of the list. The list cannot be used again until that window is closed.
The same Medication window also opens from an open Health Assessment, Physician's Order, or Monthly Nursing Assessment, using Add or Edit beside that screen's medications grid. Those records still belong to the client.
Two entries are required to save:
If either is missing, Save & Close does nothing. There is no message. The window stays open.
Fill in what staff will read on the MAR: Strength, Dosage, Route, and Frequency, plus the clock times under Medication Administration Schedule. There are five time boxes. There is no sixth time.
Include on Medication Adminstration Record is ticked on a new medication. That is the on-screen spelling. Untick it if this medication should stay off the printed MAR.
After the first successful save, Select Client is locked. The record cannot be moved to another client.
If a medication was discontinued, do not delete it. Open it from Nursing Center → Medications, enter the stop date, and mark it Inactive. Inactive keeps the history. Delete removes the record, including doses that were already given.
Delete is for a record entered in error or a true duplicate. ElderSuite asks Are you sure you want to delete this record? No is the default. If Delete Prevented appears, close that message, mark the medication Inactive, and save.
The MAR is a Sunday-through-Saturday week. Staff sign on the printed sheet. Producing the report does not save or change any medication.
From the Medication List, Print → Print Medication Administration Record opens the week already filled with the current Sunday and Saturday. Further clients can be ticked before Preview. If no client is highlighted, ElderSuite shows Please select a client first.
From Report Center, the Nursing Reports entry is Medication Administration Record - Form ES4010. No client is pre-ticked on that route.
The week must be seven consecutive days starting on Sunday. If it is not, ElderSuite says so and stops. At least one client must be ticked. If no pages are produced at all, ElderSuite reports that no Medication Administration Records were found. Inactive clients are not offered on the MAR client list.
Print → Print Medication Profile on the Medication List opens a different print. That is the Medication Profile, not the weekly MAR.
If a medication was discontinued, do not delete it. Delete removes the record, including doses that were already given. Mark it Inactive instead.
For step-by-step instructions, click Ask Eddie from within ElderSuite.
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