Amending a Long-Term Care Prescription

The Amend LTC function will open prescriptions in Amend LTC mode, allowing you to make changes to the current NON-RETAIL prescription and record the changes in the audit history. Any changes made through Amend LTC will be reflected on Long-Term Care reports and will be applied to refills. Please note that Amend and Amend Next can also be used for non-retail prescriptions, but they do not allow you to keep of record of the changes in the audit history.

In the Long-Term Care module, government status prescriptions cannot be refilled, but occasionally require changes. Amend LTC provides the ability to edit the instructions, and group Rx status while retaining a record of the changes in the audit history. Admin Times can also be amended, but the changes are not recorded in the audit history.

When a government status prescription (e.g. group Rx status 'G') is amended to a regular status (e.g. group Rx status 'A'), the prescription number remains as a government prescription number (e.g. Rx# 37). A regular prescription number is assigned once the regular status prescription is refilled.

Amend LTC is available for the following prescription statuses: Complete, Hold, Amend, and Amend Next.

You can select a non-retail prescription to amend by:

Audit History

Amend LTC transactions are identified by *LTC* in the Audit History and the prescription status Amend. The audit history displays changes to the doctor, group Rx status, instructions, QA and user. Press here to see an example.

Daily Labels

When a Daily label set is printed for a status Amend prescription, the file copy will indicate if the prescription has been amended through the Amend LTC function. The bottom of the file copy will indicate: *AMEND LTC PRESCRIPTION *

This will allow you to file the Amend LTC file copy with the prescription's original file copy.