For doses <0.35mL, our nurses are infusing with a flush, which skews our guardrails reporting. Can anyone share their process for this scenario? Thanks in advance!

I am looking to connect with others whose organizations have undergone or are in the process of planning for integration. My organization is pursuing this with Epic/Baxter, but I imagine a potential issue we are discussing is widely applicable.

Hello,

Is it mandatory to capture lot numbers and expiration dates during medication scanning? Industry guidance and the Federal Register suggest that drug manufacturers are not required to include this information in linear barcodes.

Hello,

Does your institution have a good catch program? If so, how are your winners selected? Do you use a random selection generator? Is each nomination evaluated based on defined criteria (ex: potential severity, etc.) with the "best" good catch selected for the award?

Thank you!

Hello group,
I am revisiting phenobarbital prep and administration for neonates and looking for safest practices. I'm mostly focused on loading doses and undiluted drug but open to more general info (65mg/mL and 10mg/mL are both on the ISMP/VON list, with the comment that maintenance doses might be unmeasurable without dilution).

We are a metropolatin Level 1 trauma center who is expanding our Emergency Department. Currently, we have Omnicells in the "open" area around the nursing stations/computers. The ED staff prefers this; the leadership team is considering closed medication rooms with badge access. For Level 1 TC and busy EDs: do you function with medication rooms or ADCs in an open area?
Thanks ahead of time.
Mary

Hello - We are currently evaluating the possibility of adding additional anticoagulation pharmacist support at our institution. We are not able to wait for RxOps data, so answering the following questions would be very helpful. Thanks!

1. Do your hospitals or clinics have an anticoagulation pharmacist? If so, how many?
2. Are they providing inpatient or outpatient anticoagulation support?
3. How many patients on average does each pharmacist manage (inpatient/outpatient)?
4. Do the pharmacists bill for their services?

Thank you!

Hello MSOS members, our institution is looking to create a pediatric guideline for IV medication administration. We are intending to create a table to guide nurses as to what meds and doses are appropriate to give on a pediatric unit for pediatric patients. The table would include information on monitoring parameters, IV Push, etc.

For reference, we have a pediatric unit within a community hospital. We are currently using meditech and soon transitioning to Epic.

Hi All
We are in the process of reviewing and updating our pediatric context settings for medication prescribing. We recently had an error in dosing of tablets for an outpatient pediatric patient. When reviewing the error we noticed that there are no peds settings (wt based dosing units) on the medication and many of our medications that are NOT liquids.

Hello!

Was hoping to gather a little insight on practices related to Medication Samples Utilization at your organizations...

If you have 5 minutes - would you please mind submitting your responses to the brief (6-9 question) survey here: https://forms.office.com/r/KkZw1x8jDK

Happy to share the results / responses.
Thanks in advance!
Emily