Introduction to Creating Standing Orders for a Group

A Standing Orders tab has been added to the Groups folder, allowing a list of standing orders to be maintained for the group and assigned to patients as required. Standing Orders are standardized prescriptions or medical directives determined by the facility and can be an array of prescription or non-prescription items, such as flu shots, Tylenol, a leave of absence from the facility, etc.

Patients can be assigned to an active Standing Order from the Standing Order Details window. This can be done at the time of creating a new standing order, or at a later time by opening the Standing Order Detail window for an existing Standing Order and adding patients. Standing Orders can also be assigned to patients at the time of adding the patient into the group; this is useful when the doctor provides the pharmacy with a list of the patient’s Standing Orders upon being newly admitted to the facility.

When Standing Order prescriptions are created for patients, they can be backgrounded and in most cases processed without user intervention, as the prescriptions use details from the Standing Order: Doctor, Drug, Qty (the prescription’s QA will be the same as the Qty), SIG, days supply, V/W, administration times and group Rx status. Standing Order prescriptions are NEW prescriptions.

An existing active Standing Order can be modified if no prescriptions are linked to it; once prescriptions have been created, the Standing Order can no longer be modified.

When Standing Orders are inactivated or deleted, any linked prescriptions are inactivated. This ensures Standing Orders no longer used by the group are not active at patient level and do not appear on MARs and TMRs.

Note: Standing Orders are not available in New Brunswick.

To access Standing Orders, do the following:

1. Press More > Groups.
2. Search for and select the Group.
3. Press the Standing Orders tab.