Pillboxes¶

The Pillboxes screen follows the preparation of the medication ahead of the rounds: who prepared each box, who checked it, and what is missing. Open it with the pillboxes button at the top of the Round. It is shown to nurses.

Setting it up¶

Settings > Medical, Track the pillboxes. With the setting on:

• each dose records who prepared it and who checked it;

• a care assistant gives only a prepared dose;

• a nurse prepares an unprepared dose on the spot, at the round.

Without the setting, the screen still works, and says that a care assistant may still give an unprepared dose.

Choosing the day¶

The days at the top go from Today to seven days ahead. Choose the day of the boxes to prepare or to check.

Each resident shows the box moment by moment (morning, noon, evening…), with the medicines and their dose, and the state of the box: To prepare, In progress, Prepared, Prepared, some missing, Checked or Issue to fix, with who prepared or checked it.

Preparing the boxes¶

On the Prepare tab, choose who prepared the doses under Prepared by:

• the house — the nurses fill the boxes;

• the pharmacy — the pharmacy delivers sachets.

Prepared by the house¶

1. Fill the box.

2. Tap a medicine that is missing: it is marked missing and the pharmacy is told. Tap it again once found.

3. Tap Pillbox prepared.

Syrups and drops are not in the box: they show at the moment and are prepared when they are given.

Received from the pharmacy¶

The sachets hold what the pharmacy may put in them; a medicine marked house stays yours to prepare.

1. Tap Sachets received and stored under the resident.

2. Fill in Delivered on, Sachets until, the Lot or series, printed on the sachet and the Number of sachets, and a remark if useful.

3. Tap Sachets received and stored.

The resident’s box then shows the delivery: its date, its lot, and the day the sachets must be used by. A sachet past its use-by date is shown, to prepare again.

Checking the boxes¶

On the Check tab:

• tap Conform under a resident to check the whole box;

• tap a medicine to flag an issue on that dose: Wrong medicine, Wrong dose, Wrong moment, Dose missing or Dose in excess, with a remark if useful, then Record the issue.

A dose with an issue is blocked until a nurse prepares it again: on Prepare, it shows issue · prepare again; tap it once fixed. At the round, it shows Issue at the check.

Taking a medicine out of a box¶

When a treatment stops or changes after the box was prepared, the resident shows To take out of the box, with the medicines concerned. Tap each one once it is removed.