androgel patch

[Zen123]

Not familiar with this med. Plenty comes in a box. It's a schedule 3 i believe. Does your work keep this med locked in the narc drawer?

Ran into this med tonight while floating and counting all that are in the box is a pain.

[TheCommuter, BSN, RN]

Androgel has been locked in the narcotic drawer of the medication cart during the handful of times that I have had a patient using it.

[Multicollinearity, BSN, RN]

We keep ours in the locked narcotic box. It is a controlled substance.

[Kyrshamarks, BSN, RN]

It is locked and the easy way to count it is to take 5 patches at a time and staple in the upper corner. Take one off and remove the staple completely from the batch. That way you count by 5's and the loose ones. That is how we do it here.

[Zen123]

Thanks!

[mindlor]

This stuff is testosterone in a concentrated form ladies, br very careful with it unless you want your voice to come down a few octaves :)

[blondy2061h, MSN, RN]

We give one of those to every male who's depressed or more sleepy then they think he should be. They're in the pyxis.

[mindlor]

We give one of those to every male who's depressed or more sleepy then they think he should be. They're in the pyxis.

haha hmmm, assessment eh? maybe better to take a peak at testosterone levels first?

[CapeCodMermaid, RN]

We have it on narcotic count, too, although I don't know why. Can you sell this on the street for lots of money?

[Anisettes, BSN, RN]

We have it on narcotic count, too, although I don't know why. Can you sell this on the street for lots of money?

We kept injectable testosterone in our narc box when I worked for the VA and it was part of the narcotic count. It's only a controlled substance in that it develops legs if not carefully controlled.

Same for Botox which we sometimes keep for injection for treating rectal fissues, etc... If we didn't keep people accountable for it, it would disappear from the pyxis and end up at someone's Botox party.