AM Tasks are used for clinics that keep all spay/neuter/anesthetic patients overnight. This tasking feature helps staff administer drugs to the patient the morning after their procedure while still in the care of the clinic.
In your Patient Flow Setup, there are several settings. The first setting: Does your clinic keep animals overnight as a routine part of spay/neuter surgeries? will turn on a section called AM Tasks
Enabling AM-task setupThe AM Tasks appear on the left panel of Clients under Patient Flow and Drug Logs here.
Accessing the AM tasks Setting up drug charts for drugs given the next day through AM Tasks
You will create the drug protocol and charts as outlined in Drug Logs. For the drug that will be administered the next day, this drug should be drawn and recorded on the drug log along with all other drugs for this patient. This chart should be part of the “Induction” section to be drawn on PF’s Drug Draw. For this chart, you will need to indicate that YES, it is to be given the next day.
AM tasks in drug protocolSo, let’s say your patient is seen for surgery on Tuesday; you would draw the AM drug up on Tuesday along with all the other drugs but not administer it until Wednesday morning. Here is what the drug will look like on Patient Flow.
All other induction drugs will be recorded as given with the green check but notice that the AM drug is still in its syringe.
Where you will see the AM task drugsGiving the AM Drug
The next day, in this scenario, it is now Wednesday. Before the animal goes home, staff would work from AM Tasks. Go down the line, toggling the switch next to each animal that has been given its morning meds.
Once done, you can record all drugs given by clicking the Give AM Drugs button at the top for all animals toggled on “green.”
Marking AM drugs as given