Medications
The Medications tab in the admin panel is your medication library - every medication your care recipient takes, with its usual dose, route, and (optionally) a reminder schedule. Logging a dose from Quick Entry is just picking a medication from that library, so the more complete the library is, the faster logging gets.
Quick meds - one tap to log
Any medication in the library can be flagged as a "quick med." Quick meds show up as their own buttons at the top of Quick Entry - one tap logs the dose using the medication's default amount and route immediately, no form to fill in. Use this for the medications you give on a predictable schedule every day. There's an optional "add a note" toggle if you want to note something unusual (given late, given with food, skipped a dose) without slowing down the common case.
Reminders and schedules
A medication can have a reminder schedule set up one of two ways:
- Clock-based schedule - set specific times of day (for example 08:00, 14:00, 20:00) and Jack Docs tracks whether each scheduled dose has been given, is due, or was missed. The "Today's med schedule" panel on the dashboard shows this as a checklist with one-tap "Give" buttons and a given-count for the day.
- Interval-based reminder - instead of clock times, set a reminder to repeat every so many hours after the last dose was logged (useful for as-needed or PRN-style medications on a minimum-interval basis).
If you log a dose a little early, Jack Docs shows an early-dose warning (typically within about 15 minutes of the next scheduled time) so you notice before double-dosing by accident - it's a warning, not a hard block, since you know your child's situation better than the app does.
Inventory and low-stock warnings
Set "doses remaining" on a medication and Jack Docs counts down automatically every time a dose is logged (and counts back up if you delete a logged dose by mistake). Set a "low stock threshold" and you'll see a "Refill soon" warning on the medication in the Today panel and in the admin medication list once the remaining count drops to or below that threshold - enough notice to call the pharmacy before you're down to the last dose.
Routes
Each medication can have one or more administration routes (oral, tube, topical, injection, and so on) with a default route pre-selected when you log a dose. If a medication is given more than one way, you can choose the route at the time you log it.