Would anyone at facilities that perform cardiac bypass surgeries be willing to share how KCl vials are provided for perfusionists? Are they made available via ADM, in kits? Are they handled as a controlled substance?

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Are any of your facilities using technology in the intraop setting to scan and document administration of medications?

Hello,

Has anyone reviewed their oral solutions labeling in the MAR and revised them? Ours are inconsistent and some list the strength per 5 mL, strength per single mL, no concentration at all, etc. Of note, this is referring specifically to MAR name for a patient-specific order, not referring to the actual label on the cup or the patient-specific label attached to the cup.

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Good morning! Would anyone be willing to share what objective, quantifiable criteria your organization has set for patient safety in the employee annual evaluations? We are trying to move away from a set threshold of monthly submissions to our voluntary reporting system. We have 1 inpatient pharmacy, 5 outpatient pharmacies, and a clinical pharmacist staff (inpatient/ambulatory clinics) that we would like to *hopefully* apply the same criteria to.

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For those organizations that participate in Leapfrog, what are you doing to ensure workarounds with BCMA are not occurring? The manual references real-time observations and says that structures should be in place to monitor and reduce workarounds, but doesn't give anything beyond that.

Thanks,
Elizabeth

When you perform a RCA and education is an action item as a result, what does that look like for your organization? How do you determine competency after?

Thank you,
Stacie Ethington, MSN, RN-BC
Medication Safety Nurse Specialist
Nebraska Medicine

Hello!

This is for any of you MSOs who also do drug diversion prevention.

We have budgeted and are planning to purchase the VeriLinkRx (narcotic waste testing) system sometime this fiscal year.

Rather than re-invent the wheel, I am wondering if anyone has implemented a similar system before? If so, does anyone have any policies, procedures, etc. around narcotic waste testing.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,
Lauren

Do you have inpatient behavioral health patients that are keeping their armbands for identification on their wrist? Please advise if you have a product that stays on, or what other processes you have implemented to continue safe patient identification for bedside barcoding and all other hospital processes for this patient population.

As you all know most CPOE for outpatient prescription writing out there are designed for adults(anything pediatric is always a custom job and is very expensive and takes long to build). Some systems are more intuitive than others in adapting pediatric order writing to accommodate mg/kg/dose and/or need for weights and instructions for more complex compounds. Others...not so much.

Hello . . . I am interested in opinions as to what professional habits may make a practitioner less likely to make a medication error in his or her professional practice. While understanding that most errors are ultimately system related, I would like to know if there are opinions as to what professional habits could add to system reliability to prevent errors. Some examples may be: