Skilled Nursing Facilities

Exhaust a Medication Supply

When you have orders that have medication supplies from multiple sources (i.e. Family supplied and Pharmacy), an exhaust link appears where the reorder link usually appears. You can fix this when the original source supply runs out, so then the new source supply appears in eMAR. This process is done so that the eMAR can show the proper medication source that the clinician administers.

  1. From the Supply section of the order, click the exhaust link to the left of the supply that was just finished.

  2. In the window appears, confirm your action.

  • The exhaust link only appears if you have correct security access under either Clinical module or EMAR module: Enhanced Orders Management > Exhaust Order Supply = Y.

  • You see the exhaust link if the original order is in an 'On Hand' status when it is updated to change the source of the medication i.e. Resident has  orders that are supplied by their family, so the original order source is Family Supplied. Family decides they are no longer supplying it and you need to get it from pharmacy. So you update the order to 'Supplied from Pharmacy'. Updating the source of orders that are in the status of 'On Hand' creates a second order supply record. After the medication is dispensed and delivered by Pharmacy and medication is received into PointClickCare (changing the order supply status to 'On Hand' and show a reorder link). Now the order has multiple active order supply records; two On Hand order supply records. The original shows the exhaust link for the clinician to click when the original supply is completed. This then shows the correct supply in eMAR so the next nurse knows to look for the pharmacy supply to administer.

  • Facilities using eMAR Integrated with Pharmacy see scenarios where automated exhaust replaces need to manually exhaust.