I was wondering if anyone could give me some help on how to use the Lloyd's compass system. I have heard it is quite complex to use so any help, guides would be greatly appreciated.
Ring Lloyds (either your nearest, or preferably the one you will be working in). Ask if you can pop in for a bit (maybe an hour) and have a pharmacist who knows how to use the system take you through it. Do this before your first day alone with it. Believe it or not, they're likely to be impressed with you for asking!
It's not tooooooo bad once you get used to it; main problem is there's some options which just aren't mentioned on the screen (eg using alt-l to change quantities on each label at the ordering screen) and so very frustrating if you don't know about. Another example: installment addict dispensing is a seperate place, which you can't get to (as far as I've found!!) from the normal "enter name" point.... you have to go back to the title/welcome page and pull down a menu to find it (which is why it took me 1&3/4 hours to get a methadone label out of it the first time I used it (alongside a "just passed my NVQ and finished the 9 week Compass training but I never have anything to do with the addict scripts so I don't know anything about it" dispenser (or anything about anything else, but that's another thread))).
Sounds familiar. Another thing I dislike was no facility for Free typing a label, on old system was F2 and Pharmacy Manager enables you to design and store custom labels.
As everyone said could not read my writing, ability to type on a label very useful for notes.
johnep
Hi there. I don't particularly like the system but it has it's good points. BTW .. how do you do an emergency supply on it? Never been able to figure out the coding ... was shown once but forgot!
will be somewhere among the types of script, top right corner, press F10?.
Important because of VAT difference in charge.
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