Good afternoon. How does your site deliver Meds to Beds? Our outpatient pharmacy delivers to the inpatient unit automated dispensing cabinet and nursing is supposed to retrieve the medication from the ADC at discharge. We have had a trend of events in which a patient is sent home with someone else's discharge medications, despite warnings, signs, and other visual cues that we tried to put in place at the ADC. Do other sites deliver directly to the patient? If so, how do you handle controlled substances at the bedside? What do you do if discharges are delayed? And how do handle refrigerated medications?
Wed, 02/17/2021 - 15:12
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Meds to Beds