Our pediatric institution routinely uses partial medication patches. The dose is entered as the # of patches (ie. 0.25 patches or 1 patch). Does anyone have any clinical decision support at the point of administration to remind the RN that only a partial patch is needed?

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Greetings,
We have a request to prepare Reck solution in the pharmacy for periarticular injection. Does anyone have stability and compatibility information you could share? I found a commercially available product from Quva, but concerned about cost. Thank you.

Currently our dose rounding for acetaminophen suppositories is to the nearest quarter of a suppository. The nurse is cutting or shaving the suppository on the floor prior to administration. We are evaluating this practice and would like to know if there are any best practices out there on rounding doses of suppositories and administering them? How are other hospitals preparing and administering suppositories if partial doses are needed or do you just round to the nearest whole suppository?
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Does anyone require an order set or panel that has labs/EKG/monitoring for patients on dofetilide/sotalol at home that get admitted to the hospital (for continuation of home therapy)? If so, can you share your order sets/ process?
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Lindsey

Our facility has been having issues with remembering to remove medications from the patient med drawer or boxes in the rooms upon discharge. We have added a hard stop to printing the AVS where a nurse must say she has removed medications from the drawer/box but they continue to select yes and not actually complete the task. Does anyone have anything that works as far as hard stops/forcing function for removal of medications from drawers upon patient discharge? A little more info: Our current process is that RNs are responsible for this task as EVS cannot touch the medications.

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We are looking to enhance our process for managing medications returned to pharmacy from patient care units. Does anyone have an efficient process that they would be willing to share? Thanks in advance!

For those of you who have BD Alaris pump and Epic and have started to upgrade your pumps and servers to address the 510k requirements, have you experienced interoperability disruption to the services with the upgrades? Would you be able to share your overall experiences with the project?

Does anyone allow the use of buffered lidocaine, j-tips, urojet, or other topical local anesthetics within 96 hours of Exparel administration?

Thank you for your input.

Hi all, I hope you’re doing well. I have a question
For those who use concentrated potassium chloride as feticidal in some cases, how the order designed within your health informatics system, HIS
Dose:
Route of administration:
Frequency:
How is the preparation:
Labeling:
Administration documentations
And Who administers it?
Thank you for sharing your experience with me.

Does anyone have stability info for naloxone infusions at 40 mcg/mL? If you are using this concentration, what is your BUD?

We are updating our naloxone infusion concentration from the manufacturer recommended concentration of 4 mcg/mL to the ASHP Standardize 4 Safety recommended concentration of 40 mcg/mL but I cannot find any information for stability at this concentration.