hello!

Looking for input on handling of Botox at other institutions. Currently our hospital has Botox listed as a hazardous drug that would require double glove, chemo gown, and mask for reconstitution. I am not finding any information that justifies our current handling of this medication, but just wanted to reach out to others to see how your institutions classify/handle this drug.

Thank you for your time! I am new to this group and looking forward to collaborating in the future.

Looking to see if anyone else has developed any take home resources regarding hazardous medications that are dispensed in the retail setting for caregivers. Inpatient we have warnings to nurses at the ADC and many resources available. But for patients who are being discharged home with a hazardous medication they or a caregiver may be manipulating (ie: crushing or opening for g-tube administration) that level of hazard (especially reproductive hazard) may not always be communicated in the drug monograph that is dispensed (Thinking along the lines of a pregnant person as a caregiver).

Hello all.

I posed some HD questions to ASHP's medication safety list serve and have not received a whole lot of feedback. I am going to try this group since I am at a stopping point for our HD policy roll out until I have a better grasp on how to handle one topic in particular... the handling of HDs by personnel who are pregnant or trying to conceive.

Does anyone have any exact verbiage to use to inform staff that they are handling hazardous medications? we are wondering if anyone has already had employees sign an attestation that they know they are handling HDs. If anyone can share how they informed staff and if they have documents that they had staff sign.