But, that is not his question. His taper of Prednisone will NOT populate the pull-down list. Yes, the Prednisone tablets will be remembered in the medication dropdown list and if that medication is chosen the rest of the fields will fill in the exact same way as before.
So to be a little crazy, if you write:
Koolaid flavored drink
Give one 8 ounce glass daily
Disp 1 pitcher Refills 5
then whether you type Koolaid or pick it from the dropdown list, the sig will be filled in the way it was last time UNLESS you have Koolaid written before and it is in the registry.
So, the sig is completely dependent on the medication chosen, and is not in the dropdown list for sigs. You can look in the dropdown list for "Give one 8 ounce glass daily," and you will NEVER see it in the sig dropdown list. It will be located in the registry, which is where it is associated with the medication.
It's the same with the refills. If you type any medication and give 500 refills, once again if you type the same medication, it will usually populate the refill box with the number 500. But the only things you will see in the dropdown box are:
None, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 11. PRN 1 MO., PRN 3 MO., PRN 6 MO. and PRN 12 MO. There will never be any other refill choices in the dropdown box. Again, to be clear, if you put in 27 refills for a medication you wrote, the next time you write it, 27 will show up. But, not because it was in the dropdown box, and it won't be there.
Also, for clarifiction, and both Barbara and Vinny are correct about this, you must prescribe the medication for the sig, number dispensed and refills to be saved to the registry, but that means clicking on the Update/Prescribe button. You do not have to actually close the prescription writer or print the medication.
Finally, if you type Prednisone with a taper on Computer 1, after you prescribe 54 other medications, the sig, number dispensed and refills will be deleted from the registry, so if the sig were extremely complicated you may want to acquire Shortkeys or copy and paste from your PC.
Last edited by bert; 07/19/2007 5:02 PM.
