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Banana bag bedside compounding

Jane Mauro's picture

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Good morning,
Does anyone work somewhere where the pharmacy closed overnight and allows RNs to make banana bags on the floor?

Also, I always considered banana bags medium-risk compounding with 4 vials additives, would anyone else consider them low-risk instead? Thanks to anyone that can provide any insight!

Respectfully,
Jane Mauro

"Barn" doors

Melissa Bishop's picture

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Do you use "barn" doors (top and bottom halves of the door open separately) at your institution, particularly in behavioral health (BH) areas? Any pros/cons or regulatory issues to share? I would also be interested in hearing about BH room designs for prepping and administering meds where patients come to the med room (versus the meds being taken to the patients).

Partial bottles of anesthesia gas

Dan Sheridan's picture

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Current practice in our OR is anesthesia fills their machines with the gas and then the bottle is returned to the ADC to ensure these are locked up. The problem, however, is the bottles being returned are partial (open) bottles. Thinking about maintaining integrity, would there be any concerns with these partial bottles remaining in the ADCs? Outside of keeping these locked up, the only other option would be to top off the reservoir and then waste the remaining amount. We want to ensure we can speak to the integrity if anything is mentioned during a survey.

Pharmacy med delivery and standard administration times

Randi Trope's picture

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We have been having some issues with "missing medications" related to standard administration times. To help us solve this can you answer the following.
Ideally, only pediatric dispensing please answer as we know those doses all have to be drawn up individually rather than a standard stock dose that can be stored in Pyxis...(Thanks)

I hope this makes sense to you...

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