View dispense history

Overview

This flow describes how to view the medicine dispense history for an encounter in Care.

Pre-requisites

• The patient has an encounter at the facility.
• You have the permission listed below.

Permissions

Permission	Access
Medication Dispense Read	Lets you view dispense records. Held by Facility Admin, Admin, Staff, Doctor, Nurse, and Pharmacist.

Steps

1. Open the Dispense History sub-tab

1. Open the encounter.
2. Select the Medicines tab.
3. Select the Dispense History sub-tab.

Note: Press g then m to go to the Medicines tab.

2. Select a Dispense Order

A list on one side shows the Dispense Orders of the patient. Each entry shows the name of the order, or the date and time of the order when the order has no name. Each entry also shows the location.

Care selects the first Dispense Order in the list. Select another Dispense Order to see the items of that order.

Note: On a small screen, select Select Dispense Order to open the Dispense Orders list.

3. Read the dispensed items

Care shows the items of the selected Dispense Order in a table with these columns:

Column	What it shows
Medicine	The name of the medicine or supply item.
Dosage	The dose of the medicine.
Frequency	How often the patient takes the medicine.
Quantity	The quantity that the pharmacy dispensed.
Location	The location that the pharmacy dispensed from.
Status	The status of the dispense.
Bill Time	The date and time when the pharmacy prepared the item.
Actions	The action to open the item in the pharmacy screen. Care shows this action only for an item that is not Completed.

Note: If the patient has no dispense record, Care shows No dispense history found.

Expected Outcome

• You see the medicines and supply items that the pharmacy dispensed for the encounter.

Related

Concepts:

• Medicine Dispense

Flows:

• Dispense a medication