In Admit Orders activity, where do you decide whether a home medication should be ordered for the admission?

• A. Reconcile Orders
• B. Reorder Home Medications section
• C. Order Sets section
• D. Home Med Data

Answer: (A)

When admitting a patient, you determine which home medications should be ordered by reconciling the patient’s current home meds with what will be started in the hospital. The reconciliation step is where you review each home med, decide whether to continue, adjust the dose, hold, or discontinue, and then place the corresponding hospital orders for admission. This is the point in the Admit Orders workflow where the decision to order a home medication for admission is made. Other areas serve different tasks: viewing home meds (Home Med Data) or re-prescribing from the home list (Reorder Home Medications) or using predefined med bundles (Order Sets) don’t directly address deciding which home meds to admit.