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EasyScript Quick Tips for Providers

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Why Use EasyScript?

It helps us to improve safety and quality by:• Maintaining an accurate medication profile for

medication reconciliation.• Checking for drug allergies and drug to drug

interactions• Standardizing dosing.• Preventing errors due to

illegible handwriting.

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Components of a Prescription

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Training Situation

Example for training:• 4 year old female• Weight 20 kg• NKDA• Multiple seizures when febrile to 40C.• Admitted for observation - found with acute otitis media.• Plan to send home on amoxicillin 80-90 mg/kg ÷ bid x 10 days.

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How to Open EasyScript

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Overview of Easyscript Screen

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Enter the Prescription – Part 1

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Enter the Prescription – Part 2

• Stop Date:– It is important to enter a Stop Date to keep the Medication Profile up to

date.– Use Duration field to automatically calculate the Stop Date.

• Instructions and Comments:– Type in additional Instructions and Comments.– Use the keyboard and back arrow to insert text in pre-filled instructions.

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Enter the Prescription – Part 3

• Disp/Supply tips– Example: How to enter a 10 day supply. – Click in the Disp/Supply field.– Type 10 (for the number), d (for day), – Press the Enter key TWICE.– Select the correct quantity from the drop down.

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Enter the Prescription – Part 4

• When to use See Instructions:– Medication tapers or titrations.– Varied dosages (e.g., 100 mg in am, 200 mg noon, 300 mg at bedtime).

• Problems with See Instructions:– Disables dose checking.– Makes Medication Profile difficult to use.– May erase some details already entered in EasyScript.

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Enter the Prescription – Part 4

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EasyScript Prints• After signing the EasyScript, the

prescription prints in a secure location.– Computers On Wheels at UC desk.

– Team Room computers in team room.

• Provider goes to printer to pick up and sign EasyScript prescription.

• There cannot be any handwritten changes to the printed script. If the prescription is not correct use Duplicate/DC (described later).

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Medication Profile• After signing the EasyScript, the medication displays with an Rx prefix

on the Medication Profile.• The Medication Profile will also display the patient’s other home

medications. (Hx denotes a home medication prescribed by an outside provider or over-the-counter medications).

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Medication Profile

• If you made a mistake or want to create a refill, right click on the medication and select Duplicate/DC.– Duplicate will bring up the medication and details for easy modification.– DC will discontinue the old medication.

• To discontinue a medication completely, right click on the medication and select cancel/DC.

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See InstructionsUse See Instructions for complex dosing situations such as medication tapers, titrations or variable doses.

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Additional Resources - Online Help

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Additional Resources Inpatient CIS EasyScript Fundamentals

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Key Points

• Use Pediatric Order Sentences.

• Use See Instructions only for complex dosages.

• Disp/Supply field:– Type the number, type the letter, press the

Enter key twice. Then select from the drop down list.

• Sign the printed EasyScript prescription.