In addition to the standard administration options available for medications, your facility has Officer Administered options. These will be used at facilities where nursing is not present over the weekends and/or overnight. Nursing should use these statuses for documentation of Officer Administered medications on the EMAR. At this time, Paper MARS will continue to be scanned into the patient record. 

Options include: 

• Officer Administered – See Paper MAR
• Officer Observed Self-Administered – See Paper MAR: Self-administered example is insulin.
• Officer Refused – See Paper MAR

Considerations:

• Officer Administered options are only available for up to 72 hours post administration time.
• If one of the Officer Administered options is chosen, you will be required to choose the day/time slot for the administration.
• If documentation is occurring within the timeframe of the order, you will be required to confirm the day/time for which the administration occurred.