To all of you that use EMIS, the prescribing software is now complete for nurse rx's. They did tell me when i phoned it is still on test but if you phone them they will e mail details on how to use it. Will let you know what happens when i get my mail!

Well maybe some problem here as when i have read it they seem to say nurses cannot have handwriting exemption!. Here we go again!.

Just keep wading through the treacle. Bound to be some sponge cake somewhere in there.

Keep us informed.

or maybe treacle sponge!.
I will await there answer as if i put it on the system seems to me it will stop me doing the cd prescriptions.

Keep handwritng them I say! Being a basic person, and hoping that I soon get some more blue MDA forms as they are nearly all gone, and we are having the same old problems in getting more!

Beverley Harniman

Beverley,
Computer generating should make things easier for us, and if you got a box of 500 blank fp10mda then you would not have to worry so often as to whether they will send you any more.

I know. One of the admin people here got on to EMIS about the nurse prescribing today; told we will be able to access it when they have sorted out the "bugs in the system" I wonder how long!

Beverley Harniman

Beverley,
they sent me the details of how to put it on the system it is done. Just not generally released. I just need to clarify because i think it will not let us do supplementary prescribe cd's.
Phone them yourself tell them you know other practices have it!.

How pathetic! Presumably you still handwrite the lilac scripts do you? I just do "B" for by hand on the computer, like with the CD scripts.

Beverley Harniman

Yes still handwrite the lilac scripts, but if the computer is configured for nurses to prescribe then we can use the green computer ones. This makes me wonder why we had lilac scripts to start with?.

Still waiting for a response from emis, yawn zzzzzz, may take a few years for a reply as usual

Hi simon, they are a 'different' colour because they will stand out as a 'nurses script' so extra care will be taken to make sure the pin is on it, your mother's blood group, competency of years, any other identifier that will make YOU SAFER because nurses cannot be trusted to do a doctor's work yet... maybe?? That's why nurses have to jump more hoops than Billy Smart's lions to be given the 'Honour' of ye olde pen of power...lol

Well,
it is legal for us to use the green computer scripts if the computer can manage to put your pin number, mums maiden name, favourite pet's name and shoe size on. But the software has took so long to develop that if i download it onto our system it will not let me do the cd prescriptions as it says on the documents that nurses can't have the handwriting exemption.
Bythe way there is a load more emis codes out will post them if i can.

13c7 current drug user
13c8 reduced drugs misuse
13c9 subcut drug use
13cA smokes drugs
13cB misuses drugs orally
13cD episodic use of drugs
13cE prolonged high dose cannabis use
13cF preocupised with substance misuse (That's me)
13cG drug tolerance
13cH persistant substance misuse
13cJ previouslt injecting drug user
13r abstinance history
13rO abstinant from drug use
13r1 abstinant from drug misuse in normal environment
13r2 abstinant in protected environment
13r3 abstinant when receiving maintanancetherapy (Hurray!!!!!!)
13r4 abstinant on blocking therapy (Another good one)
1P30 compulsive uncontrolled drug taking
1P31 compulsive drug taking
1P6 craving for drugs
1P60 craves for drugs
1P61 no cravings for drugs
1P62 abnormal craving for drugs
1P63 excessive craving for drugs
1P64 irresistable craving for drugs
8HHd referral to drug treatment centre
8HHe referral to community drug and alcohol team

Enjoy,
Simon

We generally just use "drug addiction therapy"!

Beverley Harniman

Beverley,
you mean after i typed all these you won't use them?. I cannot believe it

August update for nurse prescrbing still says nurses cannot prescribe controlled drugs. I have phoned them again, been given another ECR number. I have given them DOH weblink thing to where it says we can. Will this make a difference, what else can I do?. Answers on a postcard.

Well ok, now they agree we can prescribe controlled drugs. This is a new development though and so people have to write to them to request this!!!!!. I thought this was what we had done!!!.
I do not know why this is so difficult for them. So if this new development takes as long as the last one will i be able to computer generate rx's before i retire?.
Blood just about at boiling point with this shower of ...................
AAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH

Well, got to speak to the guy who oversaw the nurse prescrbing module and sounds like prescrbing controlled drugs will be in the next version. Which he cannot give me a date when this might be ready.

Well, got to speak to the guy who oversaw the nurse prescrbing module and sounds like prescrbing controlled drugs will be in the next version. Which he cannot give me a date when this might be ready.