Good morning colleagues and friends,

We are anticipating TJC in the next few weeks and I was wondering if anyone already had their triannual TJC visit recently. I am interested in learning about what were the surveyors focus points during their visits.

Thank you in advance for all your help.

Sincerely,
Mohamed Sarg

We are in the building phase looking to implement Epic's Heparin Calculator.

We are being challenged with how to order a restart of a Heparin infusion that is not starting back at the initial starting rate based on the protocol. Clinical scenario examples are a heparin infusion discontinued for surgery or a patient transferred from a different hospital already therapeutic on a heparin infusion.

Anyone who has been using this calculator have any other insights or lessons learned before our go-live?

Thank you!

Hello everyone,

As a large health system, we are looking for insight on your current structure of medication safety metric reporting.

1) Who reports out your medication safety metrics?
2) What medication safety metrics are reported?
3) Which stakeholders are receiving this report (i.e. P&T, Quality/Safety)?
4) At what frequency are they informed (i.e. monthly, quarterly)?

Thank you!

Lena DeVietro, PharmD, BCPS
PGY-2 Pharmacy Resident - Medication Use Safety and Policy
Department of Pharmacy | Yale New Haven Hospital

Good morning -
My health system is evaluating the possibility of using external assistance with smart pump data analytics. Currently we do our own analysis using the detailed reports provided by the Alaris Knowledge Portal.
We have already met with Bainbridge Health. Is anyone aware of other companies providing this service?
Thanks,
Liz

Know any good PGY2 residency candidates?

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Hello All,

Has anyone had an issue with the water reservoir from Optiflow device not filling-up as well with the 2L sterile water bag vs 1L ? We use Fisher & Paykel cups.

One of our inhalotherapists reports that the cups are often almost empty when arriving in the patient room.

Thanks!

Serge Maltais
Medication safety project manager
Centre intégré universitaire de santé et services sociaux de l'Estrie - Centre hospitalier universitaire de Sherbrooke
Québec, Canada

It seems that most medication safety pharmacists/staff report to the Pharmacy department. I wanted to know what is the reporting structure of the medication safety program? (e.g. is there a reporting structure for the program to a department in the organization vs the Pharmacy & Therapeutics Committee? Thanks and happy holidays.

We are no longer able (for some time) to receive unit dose prasugrel to stock in our ADM's. Prasugrel has the verbiage "Keep and dispense only in original container". How are other facilities complying with this? Are you dispensing whole bottles to patients? Are the charges dropping for a whole bottle?

I love to hear of any strategies your facility employs to meet benchmark on T8 Glucose <50 of the IHI Global Trigger Tool.

Recently, several questions have come up during discussions with Pharmacy staff regarding appropriate workflow to maintain sterility. I was hoping someone knows the answers to the below questions: