For those hospitals who begun using Beyfortus for RSV season and procure your supply via Vaccine For Children program.
Do you know of any requirements for data transmission/collection/reporting back to the program. For vaccines it is easy, but Beyfortus is a monoclonal antibody with CVX code. Strange combination, struggling to find answers.
Thanks.

We recently had a situation where a patient adjusted the rate in the IV pump of a medication they were receiving. It is not standard practice to lock the programming of the IV pumps. Does anyone have standards on locking the programming of IV pumps or any guidance around that? Thanks.

Does anyone have a successful way of encouraging documentation of near miss events in an ambulatory setting? Our Specialty Pharmacy has a quality initiative to improve near miss reporting with discussions currently centered around tying reports to the team member annual evaluation. I want to discourage this so looking for alternative solutions to recommend. Thank you!

Hello!

Our institution received an advisory that DEHP was found in the tubing labeled non-DEHP for Alaris pumps above the historical <0.1% threshold. Our institution relies primarily on alaris pumps and have limited options for alternatives.

How are you handling the tubing advisory?
What are you doing for the special populations (neonates, etc)?
How are you infusing medications that require non-DEHP tubing?

Thank you for any ideas you may have!

Good afternoon,

For sites that draw up antibiotic syringes from Samson bags -- anyone notice any particulate matter/coring with this product once reconstituted?

Thank you!

We utilize Kitcheck and have had errors related to used medications being left in kits and sent back out. Looking to see what others are doing and to see if anyone has discovered a way to reliably stop this from happening.

Yale-New Haven Hospital PGY2 Medication Use Safety and Policy residency program will be hosting two information sessions:

Tuesday 10/24 at 5:00 PM EST
Thursday 11/16 at 5:00 PM EST

Follow this link to register: https://keysurvey.ynhh.org/f/41685002/15e5/

For Alaris pump users how is your 3% Hypertonic Saline infusions set up in your Alaris pump?

There are several vendors offering inventory management solutions for hospital pharmacies, but it seems there is a lack of a single platform that could offer a comprehensive solution to track medication from the point of ordering, to receipt, then storage, dispensing, and administration to patient. Are there any success stories of implementing a robust inventory management system(s) in a multi-hospital health-system setting anyone could share, and any vendor recommendations?

Thank you in advance.
Daniel

What scanning solution at the point of dispensing of medication in the inpatient pharmacy (e.g. dispensing oral medications not loaded in ADM) do you have in place, if any? We are looking to implement a barcode scan verification process when dispensing medication from the hospital pharmacy (e.g. scanning medication barcode and verifying it matches the ordered medication in the EMR). I would love to learn how others have tackled this, especially if you have Cerner as your EMR.