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Medication-management note template

Use this when the visit is primarily about regimen review, side-effect monitoring, and next titration steps—while still capturing safety and a focused MSE.

Template content

Copy or download, then paste into Wavo under My Templates.

Medication-Management Note

Current Medications
- List psychotropic medications with dose, frequency, and duration on current dose.

Interval History
- Target symptoms and change since last visit.
- Sleep, appetite, energy, concentration, mood, anxiety, and relevant comorbid symptoms.

Response & Adverse Effects
- Benefit (patient-reported and clinician-observed).
- Side effects, tolerability, and adherence barriers.

Relevant Findings
- Focused mental status and any labs/monitoring discussed (e.g., metabolic labs, levels).

Safety
- Suicidal ideation, self-harm, agitation, and risk formulation.

Assessment
- Working diagnoses and medication-related clinical impression.

Plan
- Continue, adjust, stop, or switch medications with rationale.
- Monitoring, education, and follow-up interval.

When to use this template

What makes the structure useful, and which visits it fits best.

Why this template works

Structural advantages for real documentation

Best for

Visit types and clinicians who use this format

  • Prioritizes adherence, response, and adverse effects over narrative therapy detail.
  • Fits short med-check visits without losing risk documentation.
  • Pairs well with longitudinal patient context in Wavo across visits.
  • 115–30 minute med checks
  • 2PMHNP medication follow-ups
  • 3Titration and side-effect visits

Example output shape

Illustrative excerpt of how a visit can land in this structure. Not a real patient record—review and edit every note before signing.

Current Medications
Escitalopram 10 mg daily (6 weeks); trazodone 50 mg qHS PRN.

Interval History
Anxiety improved from 8/10 to 5/10. Sleep still fragmented 2–3 nights/week. PHQ-9 down from 16 to 11. Denies mania.

Response & Adverse Effects
Partial response. Mild morning nausea first week, now resolved. Adherent 6/7 days; missed one dose traveling.

Safety
No SI/HI. Risk low.

Assessment
MDD with anxious distress, partial response to SSRI.

Plan
Increase escitalopram to 15 mg daily. Continue trazodone PRN. Recheck in 3 weeks. Discussed delayed therapeutic effect and sexual side-effect monitoring.

How Wavo automates this

What the product actually does with your template.

1. Add the template

Paste this content into My Templates, or start from a specialty-generated template and edit the sections.

2. Record or dictate

Capture the encounter with ambient recording or dictation. Wavo structures the note using your template.

3. Review and sign

Edit with Smart Transform if needed, then export or copy into your EHR. You stay responsible for the final note.

Put this template to work on your next visit

Start free, paste the template, and see how Wavo documents in your structure.