Prescriptions
About Prescriptions
Prescriptons can be found in the Health → Prescriptions section of GNU Health. However, since in most cases you only need to see the prescriptions of a specific patient, the recommended way is to open a Patient record and to switch to Prescriptions using the Relate button.
Information Stored in Prescriptions
Each Prescriptions record stores some general information:
Patient: Link to a patient (mandatory)
Prescription ID
Prescription Date
Prescribed by: Link to a health professional
Pharmacy: Link to a pharmacy (i.e. a Party record with the Pharmacy flag set)
Pregnancy Warning
Prescription Verified
The information about the medicaments can be found in the Presciption Lines section. Each Prescription Line consists of the following fields:
Medicament: Link to a Medicament
Indication: Link to a Pathology Info record
Allow Substitution
Print
Form: Link to a Drug Form record
Administration Route: Link to another Drug Form record
Start: Date and time
End: Date and time
Dose
Dose Unit: Select an existing dose unit or create a new one
Times
Frequency
Admin Hours
Frequency
Unit: Choose from “Seconds”, “Minutes”, “Hours”, “Days”, “Weeks”, or “When required”
PRN: Short for pro re nata (= use it as needed)
Treatment Duration
Treatment Period: Choose from “Minutes”, “Hours”, “Days”, “Weeks”, “Months”, “Years”, or “Indefinite”
Review: Date and time
Units
Refills #
Comment
Note: Only a fraction of these fields are visible in the list view, so make sure to open a Prescription Line in the form you to have access to all fields.
Prescription stock
Prescriptions can be tracked and inventoried by means of Stock Management.
To quickly create a new stock move, right-click the prescription → Actions → Create Prescription Stock Move. To view previous stock moves, right click the prescription → Relate → ‘’Stock Moves [readonly]’’.
Note: Do not create new Stock Moves from the Relate view.