When you pull up Barnestorm Office > Supplies > Approve Requisitions, you will see a list of unapproved requisitions at the top section of the screen.  When you select a requisition the details will appear at the bottom of the screen.

From here you have the option to edit the requisition if there is an issue with it – click the Edit Requisition button to be redirected to the Supply Requisition screen. Or you can approve it.  There are two options for approving;

1) Click the Approve button. This will deduct the amount of supplies used from the supply codes.  Example, if 10 of the 4x4 Drain Sponge were used, then the Quantity in stock number from Codes >Rates > Supply Codes will be reduced by 10.This is used if your agency uses Barnestorm to keep track of supply quantities, a way to prevent from running low or out of stock on supplies.

2) Click the Approve as Drop-Ship button. This will mark the supply requisition as approved but it does NOT modify the Quantity in stock number from the supply code.  This is used for supplies were not in the office “on the shelf”.   They are usually dropped off at the patient’s home directly from the medical supply store.

Approving the requisition lets the supply coordinator know that the supplies are ready to be gathered for patient drop off, and when they need to be ready by.    NOTE:  Approving the requisition also releases those supplies, and gathers them to be Imported Into Billing.

The top section of the screen also allows you to pull up only unapproved reqs, approved reqs or all of them.  You can sort them by date, employee or patient.