How do you communicate unit-based med restrictions?

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Dan Sheridan
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How do you communicate unit-based med restrictions?

Hi,

If you have a policy restricting what medications can be given on a particular kind of unit, how do you set your prescribers, pharmacists, and nurses up to succeed when these medications are ordered? For example, if a medication can only be given to a patient on a monitor, and another can only be given in ICU or an intermediate unit, how do you ensure that everyone knows that?

We have a policy, but we are relying on people to remember what the policy says, which is not an effective strategy.

Thank you,
Dan

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