How do you define which medications can be dispensed from a pharmacy? - ✔✔By plugging
in a
medication list record (an EFY record) in the Medication List field of the pharmacy record.
What setting in a Pharmacy (PHR) record controls the number of doses to dispense for PRN
orders? -
✔✔If you check the Use PRN par level to calculate the number of doses to dispense check
box, the PRN
par level will be used to dispense doses. If you leave this box unchecked, you will get one
dose when
first and cart doses are generated.
How do you designate a pharmacy as the Main Pharmacy? - ✔✔In the Hospital record in
Hyperspace,
enter your central pharmacy record in the Main Pharmacy field.
Name two purposes that the central pharmacy Med List (EFY) record serves. - ✔✔The central
pharmacy
EFY record contains every medication that is dispensed in your hospital. This EFY record (like
all EFY
, records) defines which NDCs are physically stocked and dispensed for each ERX record.
How should you dispense a multi-dose package differently from a single-dose package? -
✔✔A multi-
dose package should be dispensed only once automatically after it is ordered and verified.
Any
redispenses will be requested manually. A single-dose package should automatically dispense
a new
package for each dose due.
What must you do in Epic to force a package to dispense only once automatically? - ✔✔In the
medication (ERX) record, you must enter "yes" in the Package contains multiple doses (single
patient)
field.
Name three actions that can generate label printing. - ✔✔Dispense (first dose), PRN Par
Dispense (first
dose) and Redispense are a few.
True or False: If you leave the Dispense Code column blank for an action in the Label routing
table, that
action will never cause any labels to print. - ✔✔False. It will print for ANY medication when
that action is