Do any of your institutions administer medication via gravity? If so, are there specific medications or specific care areas these administrations occur?

We are having issues with nurses not hanging D10 when tube feeds are stopped and patient received insulin. We have a request to document tube feeds on the MAR in order to facilitate clinical decision support.

If you have tube feeds on the MAR and use Epic, please provide information on your Epic build or provide a contact that I can use to help us with this.

Thank you,
Ann

Has anyone pursued and/or completed the new ASHP Accreditation Standard for Community and Outpatient Pharmacy Practice? If so, would you be willing to share your experience?

Hello! I was hoping to get some feedback from others who have successfully implemented the Med Rec Audit for Leapfrog.
Previously when this was not a reported metris, we had not implemented this due to multiple changes that were happening in our overall structure. Now that this is a reported metric, we are trying to figure out how to implement without adding an FTE or removing a current Pharmacy provided Service. This seems like it will require a significant amount of time, so we would love to hear other's experiences.

Does anyone have a process for communicating information back to manufacturers or distributors regarding recalls? What info is included and what determines who gets a correspondence back? (ie severity of the recall, product identified etc)
any policy or procedure that outlines these processes would be greatly appreciated as well

thanks
Jess

Hi all,

Does any facility allow the ability for pharmacist to co-sign nursing when they are administering medications?

Thanks!

Hi dream team. Hope you are all well. We are currently working on improving our Pediatric Oncology library set up on the Baxter Spectrum IQ pump. We have some concerns regarding mg/m2 and/or mcg/m2 limits capturing potential overdoses. Is there anyone that currently uses the Baxter Spectrum IQ pump for Pediatrics? Would love to be able to see your library or pick your brain.

Hi all-

If you report through pharmacy, can you please tell me who you report to (i.e. DOP, clinical director, etc). And can you also tell me if you're at a single hospital vs. multi-hospital system, please. Thank you so much!

Hello All,

We are seeing an increase in reporting of general medication administration errors (not charting medications administered, administering meds but not charting, forgetting to unclamp secondary lines, incorrect routes of admin). We are attempting to determine if these are incorrect habits formed from COVID surge or something bigger. We are also currently into our HRO journey ~1 year, so may just be increased reporting of these errors and not necessarily a change.

Questions:
1) Anyone else seeing these trends post COVID surging?

Does anyone have written polices or procedures to guide staff in how to report vaccine errors/reactions and what is a reportable reaction? Is your organization tracking or trending VAERs? I am especially interested to see how clinics administering Covid vaccines are determining what is reportable beyond the required reporting.

Thanks