EasyScript Quick Tips for Providers

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EasyScript Quick Tips for Providers
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Why Use EasyScript?

• It helps us to improve safety and quality by
• Maintaining an accurate medication profile for
  medication reconciliation.
• Checking for drug allergies and drug to drug
  interactions
• Standardizing dosing.
• Preventing errors due to
  illegible handwriting.

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Components of a Prescription
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Training Situation

• Example for training
• 4 year old female
• Weight 20 kg
• NKDA
• Multiple seizures when febrile to 40C.
• Admitted for observation - found with acute
  otitis media.
• Plan to send home on amoxicillin 80-90 mg/kg
  bid x 10 days.

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How to Open EasyScript
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Overview of Easyscript Screen
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Enter the Prescription Part 1
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Enter the Prescription Part 2

• Stop Date
• It is important to enter a Stop Date to keep the
  Medication Profile up to date.
• Use Duration field to automatically calculate the
  Stop Date.
• Instructions and Comments
• Type in additional Instructions and Comments.
• Use the keyboard and back arrow to insert text in
  pre-filled instructions.

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Enter the Prescription Part 3

• Disp/Supply tips
• Example How to enter a 10 day supply.
• Click in the Disp/Supply field.
• Type 10 (for the number), d (for day),
• Press the Enter key TWICE.
• Select the correct quantity from the drop down.

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Enter the Prescription Part 4

• When to use See Instructions
• Medication tapers or titrations.
• Varied dosages (e.g., 100 mg in am, 200 mg noon,
  300 mg at bedtime).
• Problems with See Instructions
• Disables dose checking.
• Makes Medication Profile difficult to use.
• May erase some details already entered in
  EasyScript.

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Enter the Prescription Part 4
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EasyScript Prints

• After signing the EasyScript, the prescription
  prints in a secure location.
• Computers On Wheels at UC desk.
• Team Room computers in team room.
• Provider goes to printer to pick up and sign
  EasyScript prescription.
• There cannot be any handwritten changes to the
  printed script. If the prescription is not
  correct use Duplicate/DC (described later).

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Medication Profile

• After signing the EasyScript, the medication
  displays with an Rx prefix on the Medication
  Profile.
• The Medication Profile will also display the
  patients other home medications. (Hx denotes a
  home medication prescribed by an outside provider
  or over-the-counter medications).

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Medication Profile

• If you made a mistake or want to create a refill,
  right click on the medication and select
  Duplicate/DC.
• Duplicate will bring up the medication and
  details for easy modification.
• DC will discontinue the old medication.
• To discontinue a medication completely, right
  click on the medication and select cancel/DC.

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See Instructions
Use See Instructions for complex dosing
situations such as medication tapers, titrations
or variable doses.
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Additional Resources - Online Help
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Additional Resources Inpatient CIS EasyScript
Fundamentals
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Key Points

• Use Pediatric Order Sentences.
• Use See Instructions only for complex dosages.
• Disp/Supply field
• Type the number, type the letter, press the Enter
  key twice. Then select from the drop down list.
• Sign the printed EasyScript prescription.