Modifying defaults for specific medications

For a specific medication, you can set prescription defaults for:

Dosing

Anticoagulant designation

Frequency

PRN

Duration

Other directions

When you prescribe the medication, no matter what strength you choose, prescription detail fields are populated automatically with the medication’s defaults. You can then edit the prescription details as needed, and complete the prescription as normal. Medication prescription defaults can save a significant amount of time as prescribers typically only need to modify one or two fields each time they prescribe the medication.

Medication prescription defaults apply only to simple prescriptions. They are not applied to sequential, concurrent, variable, adjust as directed, or external prescriptions. Defaults are set for all users only. You cannot set different defaults for individual users.

Steps

From the Wolf EMR home page, click Configuration

From the Configuration menu, choose View > Patient Reference Tables > Medication Index. The Medication Maintenance window opens.

In the Search tab, in the Medication Name field, type part or all of the mediation name, and then click Search.

In the list of matching medications, click the medication you want to modify. In the Data tab, the EMR displays the medication’s default settings.

Using the following table, modify the medication’s prescription default settings as needed.

To set a default value for the following field in the prescription	Do this...
First Dosing field	In the Pill Quantity list, enter the default dose.
Frequency	Select the default frequency.
Duration	Select either: The default number of days or months No Cut Off or <None> to not populate the field with a default number of days or weeks, and to default the prescription as a continuous prescription. Note: If you select a specific number of days or weeks, the prescription defaults to a short term prescription.
PRN check box	Select to have the PRN check box selected by default on the prescription.
Anticoagulation check box	Select to have the Anticoagulation check box selected by default on the prescription.
Other Directions	In the Instructions area, type the directions you want to display by default in the Other Directions field of the prescription (for example, “May be taken any time but evening is recommended”)

New prescriber:

Legacy prescriber:

Click Save Changes