Does anyone's site have (in)formal Cervidil (dinoprostone) restriction criteria?
TIA!

Hello,

we would like to revamp our medication transfer process. We are not consistent in transferring medications along with patients. While nursing is deemed responsible for this task, processes vary pending the unit and type of transfer. We are interested in what other organizations do and if you encounter similar problems.

1. How often is it perceived that medications are lost during patient transfer, and/or do you have actual numbers? If you have actual counts, what metrics/methods are you using to identify meds lost during transfer?

Does anyone utilize a peer review method (council/committee) for medication events reported in an event reporting system?

Hi everyone -

We recently reviewed allergy entry in our EMR in conjunction with our abx stewardship team. Through the review it was noted we have opportunities to improve the entry as well as educate our staff better on allergies, reactions, intolerances, etc. Reaching out to the group to see if anyone has any materials along these lines to provide as a teaching tool to provide to staff, our main audience is likely nursing followed by pharmacist and pharmacy technicians.

Hello,
Does anyone have any experience removing steroid inhalers from their inpatient formulary? This would be in an effort to decrease inhaler waste and prevent duplicate therapy, as most exacerbation patients are placed on PO/IV steroids.

Hello,
Anyone have an ERAS protocol for cardiac procedures that your site is utilizing?

Hello.

We have some NICU providers that use silver nitrate for trach cares. If this is practiced at your organization, do you take any special precautions? Is it treated like a bedside procedure? Time out performed?

Thanks,
Stacie Ethington MSN, RN-BC
Nebraska Medicine

Good morning ,

Can anyone share examples of policies or processes for transferring patients requirements with active medications or patient specific medications?

Scenarios :
Patient transfer from ED to Inpatient units with active heparin drip, PCA, veletri infusion.

Patient transfer from Med Surg inpatient units to Critical Care units with patient specific medications.

Will you require always the nurse going with the patient?

Thank you very much

Hello everyone,

Are you allowing teachers accompanying nursing students in training in your facilities to perform an independent double check (IDC) of what the student has prepared and if yes could you please elaborate on your rational? Or are you considering the couple student-teacher as one person and require a third healthcare professional to perform the IDC?

Thanks to all the MSOS members who attended our MSOS meeting on Sunday afternoon this past week at the ASHP Summer Meeting in Boston. We'll be following up on the ideas presented. Thanks also to those who joined us for our networking session on Monday evening. It was great to see everyone there.

Regards,

Chris and Mike
MSOS and ISMP