If your participant has a medication chart set up, the shift shows an eMAR tab. You can only record against a chart the office has configured.
No chart, no eMAR. If the tab shows a hard stop instead of a chart, do not improvise. Phone the office, document on paper, and record it properly once the chart exists. The app will never show fake medications or pretend to save.
Recording a dose
- 1Open the shift, go to the eMAR tab. Due medications are listed with their times.
- 2For each dose, record the administration code. Some medications need a second worker to co-sign.
- 3Refusal or missed dose: pick the reason, add detail and the action you took, and note who you told. Repeated refusals escalate to the prescriber.
- 4PRN: record the reason, observations before and after, effectiveness and timing.
What happens next
Any dose not given raises an alert to the nurse and auto fills the Medication Register. Pending medication events will block your shift from completing, so clear them before you finish.
A medication error on its own is a clinical matter recorded here, not automatically an NDIS reportable incident. It only becomes reportable if the outcome itself reaches a reportable category. See Reporting an incident.