Skilled Nursing Facilities

Searching Formulary Library

During order entry, you can search for a medication from within a formulary library instead of searching MediSpan or the Custom Medication library. By selecting the formulary library option, then selecting the specific formulary you want to search, you can limit the predictive text to return only medications matching the text you type that are in the selected formulary.

  1. From the order entry screen within the clinical module, select Formulary as the search library.

  2. Select the Formulary Type to search.

  3. Begin entering the name of the medication ordered in the medication search field.

  4. Select the medication you want from the list.

  5. Continue with adding the medication order.

  • When searching the formulary library, the system also returns any active order templates that contain a medication matching the text you entered which are also contained in the formulary you selected to search.

  • If the medication you want does not appear, then it is not included in the selected formulary. Either select a different formulary to search, or select a different library (i.e. MediSpan or Custom Medication).

  • Facilities with active formularies can configure the default search library to be set at either MediSpan or Formulary.