Medication Documentation

The SCM Downtime website is used to view/print the Medication Profile report. Historical and future medication administration tasks for 24 hours are included on the report.

Administration times and signatures are documented on this report. It must be kept as part of the patient's chart if there is any documentation on it.

If new medication orders are written during the downtime, these would not appear on the Medication Profile report. New orders need to be transcribed and documented on to a manual form. Scheduled medications ordered during downtime are transcribed as soon as the order is written. Unscheduled medications are only transcribed if they are administered.

IV documentation is performed on a manual form.

SCM Downtime Order Set reference documents are available on the SCM Insite page. These documents can be used to facilitate ordering during a downtime and can be viewed or printed, but remember:

These reference documents are for reference only, and not to be used as written orders.
All written orders need to be documented on the Physician Order Sheet as per downtime procedures.
The documents are updated each time a change is made to the order set. Therefore, do not print and keep these in your Downtime Toolkit.

The SCM Downtime website is used to view/print the

SEC Downtime/Site Transfer Report. Historical and future medication administration tasks for 24 hours are included on the report.

New medications orders during downtime are written in the order sheet and documented when administered on the

Emergency Department Medication Administration Record (paper MAR). Scheduled and unscheduled medications ordered during downtime are managed on the paper MAR.

IV documentation is performed on a manual form.