This article will discuss how to assign residents to Medication Carts (Med Carts), as well as how to use Med Carts when passing meds.
If your community has more than one med cart, the carts will need to be added to ALIS, and then each resident will need to be assigned to a med cart. Contact us for assistance with adding your med carts to ALIS. Alternatively, if you have access to Medication Settings, review the Medications Settings Guide to learn how you can add med carts in ALIS.
Assigning Residents to a Med Cart
Once med carts have been configured in ALIS, it is time to assign each resident to one of the carts. This will allow the med pass team to filter for the specific cart they are working on during their shift.
There are a number of ways to assign Med Carts. The following sections will detail each method:
via the Pharmacies page (Incoming Residents)
- Click Map to ALIS Resident.
- Select the appropriate resident and click Next Step.
- On the next page, set the Med Cart and click Complete Resident Mapping.
via the Pharmacies page (Incoming Orders)
- Click View All Orders next to the resident.
- In the left hand side of the page, next to the resident's photo, click the Med Cart dropdown and select the appropriate med cart.
- Once you select a cart from the menu, ALIS will automatically save your selection and assign the resident to the cart.
- The med cart assignment can be changed at any time. When updated, all of the resident's scheduled orders will appear under the new med cart.
via the Manage Orders page
- On the right hand side of the page, click the Med Cart dropdown and select the appropriate med cart.
- Once you select a cart from the menu, ALIS will automatically save your selection and assign the resident to the cart.
- The med cart assignment can be changed at any time. When updated, all of the resident's scheduled orders will appear under the new med cart.
Bulk Assign via Floor Plans
- Select the rooms that you want to bulk assign a med cart.
- Next, click the Bulk Set button. A sidebar will appear. Check the Default Med Cart box and select the med cart. Then click Submit Changes.
- Any residents in those rooms will automatically be set to the default med cart that was selected.
- The med cart assignment can be changed at any time. When updated, all of the resident's scheduled orders will appear under the new med cart.
- The Reassign Med Carts button will reassign selected rooms to the default med cart.
Using Med Carts to Pass Meds
On the Pass Meds page, there is a Med cart filter.
Selecting a cart from the filter will update the list of residents on the page to display only the residents assigned to the selected cart.
- Then on the Pass Meds page for one of the residents, the resident navigation list at the top will also only contain the residents in the selected cart.
- When a specific med cart is selected, you do not have to return back to Pass Meds page to work on the next resident, you can simply move from resident to resident.