Good afternoon. I am considering adding pyxis override trends to our monthly medication safety workgroup meetings at my institution. Overall, we have pretty low rates, so I am struggling to see the utility of tracking this. Anyone a big advocate for this? If so, can you tell me why? Thank you for the help!

Morgan Greutman

Hi everyone,
We are trying to be more proactive in catching overrides that don't have orders/aren't documented/aren't wasted, especially with agency staff who might not come back for days.
Years ago I worked with AcuDose and it was very easy to run an override report on demand, or schedule it to be printed on the unit. The charge RN would run the report at shift change and anyone who had an override had to sign off that it was complete before they left for the day. We are struggling to find a similar workflow for Pyxis.

We are looking to create a pharmacy report card that reviews all of the override information on a monthly basis.