Our facility is considering placing un-activated mini-bags in Pyxis. We would attach the antibiotic vials to the bags in our IV room. From what we have found, we could use a 30 day BUD on the 100 mL un-activated bags in Pyxis. Nursing staff would activate the bag immediately before administering. For those that use a similar setup - did you have issues with bags being hung without them being activated? (essentially a missed dose of antibiotic?) The concern for doses not being activated has been our one road block so far.

Would anyone be willing to share their institutions corrective action plan(s) for failed gloved fingertip sampling and/or media-fill testing? Thank you in advance for your consideration. Amy

Good afternoon!
My health system uses the Epic platform heparin calculator, and we are currently working to enhance the safety of our process with the calculator. If you use the Epic calculator:
1. What safety concerns have you identified?
2. Were you able to resolve concern(s)?
3. If so, how did you resolve the concern?
Thank you!

We recently had a request to add mL in addition to units for compounding software in IV room. This is concerning with markings on the syringe (not insulin syringe) as well as 100x dosing errors.

For those of you using OmniCell integrated with Active Directory, how many hours do you have your fingerprint inactivity aging set to? Do you have different settings in your AWS/OR cabinets? We are reviewing our security settings and wondering how our setting of 96 hours fits with what other hospitals are doing. We would like to shorten to 12 hours but getting some resistance from anesthesia and the OR area. Additionally, do you require password when the user has aged off or just fingerprint?

Thanks for sharing and any insight you can provide.

Amanda

How does your EHR display concentrated insulin U-500 to distinguish it from other insulin orderables?

We are revising our patient home med policy and wanted to see what others were doing in regards to destruction of patient home meds. Please let me know which process you follow and I will summarize for the group.

Process #1
• Do you destroy the meds a certain number of days after admission (e.g. 30 days) regardless of if the patient is still in the hospital?
• If this is your process how do you ensure the meds do not get destroyed for those patients that are still in house after the cutoff date?
• What challenges have you had with this process?

Hello,

Curious to see if other organizations find challenges in ensuring that meds which are restricted to certain floors/levels of care (e.g. ICU only, telemetry only) are not accidentally ordered/inadvertently given on floors where they are not allowed (e.g. a med restricted to ICU is ordered and given on a normal med-surg floor)

Hello

Would anyone be willing to share a copy of your institution's current USP 797 and 800 cleaning logs? I would love to confirm we are on the right track.

Thanks everyone in advance
Amy

Amy Kauffman, PharmD., BCPS
Central Peninsula Hospital
250 Hospital Place
Soldotna, AK 99669

Hi everyone,

My institution has just purchased B Braun syringe pumps to be used by our transport team on pediatric patients. In the process of building out the drug library, we have realized there are many limitations with the build for bolus from syringe. Would anyone that has B Braun pumps and has the bolus feature enabled, be willing to share how you decided on your limits to overcome some of these challenges/safety concerns? Or if you decided not to enable the bolus feature at all due to these, would appreciate hearing that feedback as well!