Good afternoon Medication Safety friends and colleagues,
Our organization is looking Into creating a dashboard for formulary management and monitor utilization. We saw that many organizations have home grown dashboards. Does anyone know if there is a commercially available software that you are familiar with? Thank you all for your insights.
Sincerely,
Mohamed Sarg

Good afternoon Medication Safety friends and colleagues,
Our organization is looking Into creating a dashboard for formulary management and monitor utilization. We saw that many organizations have home grown dashboards. Does anyone know if there is a commercially available software that you are familiar with? Thank you all for your insights.
Sincerely,
Mohamed Sarg

Has anyone come up with a good solution to maintain a non-punitive environment by ensuring employees do not feel like their mistakes are kept in their personnel file, but yet ensuring there is a way to track trends of errors and non-compliance with policies by individual?

Thank you,
Shannon

Good afternoon Medication Safety friends and colleagues,
Our organization is looking Into creating a dashboard for formulary management and monitor utilization. We saw that many organizations have home grown dashboards. Does anyone know if there is a commercially available software that you are familiar with? Thank you all for your insights.
Sincerely,
Mohamed Sarg

Has anyone noticed COVID patients requiring higher than usual doses of neuromuscular blockers on ventilators? We have had several patients maxed out on cisatricurium and still over-breathing the vent...

thanks!

We are an Epic hospital and are considering adding a patient specific bar code on insulin pens to help prevent wrong patient errors. For hospitals with experience with this:
1. Has the patient specific bar code been successful in decreasing wrong patient errors with insulin pens?
2. Has there been any issues/errors associated with using a patient specific bar code?
3. Do you use Dispense Prep or any other verification technology to ensure the right label is placed on the right pen in Pharmacy?

Hi: wondering if anybody has figured out how to conduct an effective double check in procedural areas like the cath lab. We have been struggling with the logistics of doing this: there is only 1 nurse present & available and the physician is focused on the case. Yet we recognize it is important for high risk drugs and that there are likely errors occurring that are unrecognized. We also don't want to be setting up dual standards in our hospitals.

Any ideas/suggestions??

Currently epic allows an entry of a “treatment plan” weight but it applies to all drugs in the plan. We are exploring ways to allow provider to use a specific weight (e.g. adjusted weight) to apply to certain drugs in the plan without affecting the rest of the treatment.
If your institution is using EPIC, do you allow a provider to put in an “order-specific” weight to use with a specific drug in order to accommodate protocols that use different weights for different drugs and somehow you need to use a weight not already provided by epic?

Hello all,

I hope this message finds you all safe and healthy. I am reaching in hopes of learning what institutions are doing.

Does anyone practice loading heparin drips in ICU ADC's? If so, are there any added safety processes in place? We do keep certain premixed pressors and drips in the ICU ADCs, but not heparin drips. Our institution is considering also loading heparin drips, but I am somewhat concerned about this practice. Thank you in advance for your thoughts.