Metro medDISPENSE - Manual (Page 6)

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PHARMACY FUNCTIONS
Restocking a Medication
 Sign on to the medDISPENSE unit.
 Select the Inventory Maintenance button.
 Select the Inventory Restock button.
 Select the medication that you wish to restock.
NOTE: Only medications that are below the minimum value will appear.
 Confirm the current quantity/level of medication in the drawer and press <ENTER>.
 Enter the amount of medication being added to the drawer and press <ENTER>.
 Enter the expiration month and year to match the earliest of all the medications in the drawer.
 Confirm the quantity being added.
 Sign off the medDISPENSE unit.
Always remember to Sign Off the medDISPENSE system.
Creating a Kit
 Sign on to the medDISPENSE unit.
 Select the Inventory Maintenance button.
 Select the Med Kit Maintenance button.
 Select the New Kit button and enter a name for the kit being created.
 Select the item and quantity of the medication for the kit.
 Repeat steps until all of the required medications have been added to complete the kit.
 The kit will now be available via the Kits button to the left of the nursing medication list when
dispensing to a patient.
Screen/Computer Recovery
 If some functionality of medDISPENSE has stopped, the unit should be restarted.
 Pressing the [CTRL] key, the [Alt] key and the [Delete] key simultaneously will restart a unit.
 A medDISPENSE unit should NEVER be unplugged, unless instructed to do so by technical
support.
 When troubleshooting, it is important to assure that all computer connections are secure.
 If the above procedure does not work to restart the computer, press and hold in the computers
power button for 10-15 seconds.
This will force the computer to power itself off.
Warning: This may corrupt files on the system.
If you have any questions or concerns, please call medDISPENSE Customer Support at
800.947.3901, option 2.