The MAR: administering medications

The MAR (Medication Administration Record) is where nurses record every dose. There's a cross-patient MAR for your whole assignment, and a per-patient MAR inside each chart.

Your cross-patient MAR

Open MAR from the sidebar. It covers the patients you're the primary nurse for, in a window from 6 hours back to 6 hours ahead, grouped by urgency:

• Overdue (red)
• Due in next 30 minutes (amber)
• Due in next 4 hours (green)
• Recent (last 6 hours) — read-only history

Recording an administration

1. 1Find the dose and select Administer.
2. 2In the Record administration dialog, set the Status — Given, Held, or Refused.
3. 3Enter the Dose given (e.g. 500mg).
4. 4If you held or refused, enter a Reason (e.g. patient NPO). Add any Notes.
5. 5Select Record.

The per-patient MAR

Inside a patient's chart, the Medications tab has a Medications / MAR toggle. The MAR view shows today's totals (Given / Held / Refused), Quick Administer chips per active medication, and the administration history grouped by date. Recording uses the same Given / Held / Refused dialog.