Do you have a medication administration document, policy/SOP that dictates where medications may be administered ? In other words, designates if a med can be administered in ICU only, or in all levels of care, etc? I would appreciate seeing examples... thanks, Rebecca

Is there anyone at a site that has, or is in the process of, integrating their Cerner EHR with Hospira pumps? We are looking at pump integration and my team is getting conflicting information from Cerner and Hospira as to whether or not integration is currently even possible.

There is not an example of this combined integration within my network, so I am ask a broader group.

I'd like to see how common it is for hospitals to allow floor-stocking of K-containing IVFs?
Should MSC be allowed to manage these?
Should Pharmacy be handling K-containing solutions?
Do you some units to floor-stock K-containing IVFs, but not others?

thanks!
Susan

This was included in a recent ADE presentation I saw, but it wasn't explained.

Anyone know what this stands for?

It's not point-of-care
I don't think it's provision-of-care.

I am fairly new to med safety, so if this a a common acronym, I just haven't seen it.

Thanks

We are interested in whether other facilities have a policy or SOP for implanted medication pumps, such as those manufactured by Medtronic, used for morphine, baclofen, or ziconotide. For instance, how do you handle refills while patients are hospitalized? Do you require a pain management consult? Do you allow a nurse from an outside agency to enter the hospital to refill? Does pharmacy dispense the medication to be refilled? Thank you, Rebecca

Hello,

I am wondering how refrigerated tube feeds are being stored on your nursing units?

Do you allow storage of refrigerated tube feeds with medications?

Do you store store refrigerated tube feeds in a food refrigerator with other patient food. If so, are your food refrigerators medical grade?

Thanks! ---Jeff

I am trying to understand the differences in batch compounding procedures among facilities and was wondering if you guys could share some information with me.
Do you guys batch any of the drugs below in house to be administered in a syringe pump? If so, what is the BUD that you give to the batch and would you do testing of samples for each batch prepared?

Cisatracurium(Nimbex)
Remifentanil
Methadone
Fentanyl

Thank you in advance

Cris

Hello

We are noticing an uptick in our ADR rates for our patients receiving Flebogamma 10%. We are looking for institutions to share your infusion practices for IVIG. What is your institution’s preferred product? What rate of infusion and progression protocol do you follow?

Thanks!

How do you build your guardrails surrounding maintenance IV fluids? Do you have separate line items built for what the components of the fluids are (i.e. potassium or others) or do you have a general guardrail for maintenance IVF?

Thanks,

Randi

I would greatly appreciate if anyone has a sample drug library they would be willing to share for Smith's Medical MedFusion 3500 syringe pumps.