Enmantle includes a full eMAR — an electronic Medication Administration Record. It's the paper MAR your team knows, moved onto phones and the web, with every entry timed and audited. It is documentation only, not clinical: it does not check drug interactions, do dose math, or send alerts. It records who gave what, and when.

The module is off by default. Until an admin turns it on, there's no Medications item in the nav and no Medications tab on a client's profile. This guide is for administrators — the settings below are limited to SUPER_ADMIN and ADMIN roles.

Enable the module

Go to Settings → Medications, or open /dashboard/medications/settings (the page is titled Medications — Settings).
Turn on Enable Medications (eMAR).

That's all it takes to switch it on. The Medications nav item and the Client 360 Medications tab appear right away, and your managers can start adding client medications.

Choose qualifying certifications (optional)

You can require staff to hold a specific certification before they're allowed to record a dose. This is the certification gate, and it's optional.

Under Qualifying certifications, check the cert types that should let staff record — for example, a medication administration certification your state recognizes.
Click Save qualifying certifications.

Leave every box unchecked to disable the gate entirely — then anyone with a recording role can pass meds.

Once certs are configured, a staffer needs an active, approved, unexpired qualifying cert to record. Enmantle sorts each person into one of three verdicts:

ok — they hold a qualifying cert and can record normally.
needs-override — an admin who lacks the cert may still proceed, but must type an Override reason, which is audited.
blocked — a non-admin without the cert can't record; their slot cards are disabled and they'll see the banner A qualifying certification is required to record administrations.

Setting the gate here doesn't create or track certifications. Add and renew staff certs the usual way — see Adding staff and setting roles. The gate simply reads what's already on file.

Set the grace window

The grace window decides how long a scheduled dose stays "on time" before Enmantle colors it overdue.

Set Grace window to a number of minutes between 15 and 240 (the default is 60).
Click Save grace window.

The grace window only affects the coloring of doses as Due, Upcoming, or Overdue on the Med Pass grid. It never blocks anyone from recording — a dose an hour late is still fully recordable, just flagged.

A note on what eMAR does and doesn't do

Enmantle's eMAR is a documentation system. Controlled substance is a display-only badge — there are no pill counts and no witness fields. All times are Eastern wall-clock, and every action is audited. Treat it as your MAR, not as a clinical decision tool.

When you're ready, hand your managers Adding, editing, and discontinuing a client's medications and your DSPs Passing meds on the Med Pass grid.