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Setting Reminders in eMAR

In eMAR, you can set reminders when documenting medications that are not successfully administered. Setting a reminder allows you to set a time to be reminded to attempt to administer medications again. Reminders can be set for 1 to 60 minutes or hours and can be carried over from shift to shift. 

When a reminder is set, the medication can be accessed from the Reminder filter. Color coding of the Reminder filter is consistent, for example, red indicates the reminder time expired. 

Note

To prevent duplicate administration, reminders can only be set be set until the next scheduled administration. 

  1. eMAR > Resident List.

  2. Click N on medication tile.

  3. Select applicable Chart Code. For example, Drug Refused.

    Note

    Complete the progress note if required.

  4. Click Set Administration Reminder.

  5. Select the number (1-60) and minutes or hours.

  6. Click Record.

  7. To clear the reminder, do one of the following: 

    • Click Y to document if administration was successful. New chart code of Administered replaces previous chart code. 

    • Click N to document if another chart code needs to be documented. New chart code replaces previous chart code.

    • Click Clear to clear the reminder and leave the original chart code. Clears the reminder,