Are these unsafe practices?

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I work in an infusion center where we give biologic medications and I'm trying to figure out if my workplace is violating practice standards for patient safety. It really feels like they are. The medications that we give are high risk for infusion reactions. However, the infusion nursing staff is not only responsible for monitoring the active infusions but also doing phone triage at the same time, in the infusion room. We dual sign all of our medications before starting the infusion but the checks are very basic. We do not double check labs or consent when starting the med at the bedside. We do not have assignments. Instead, all of the nurses handle all of the infusions at once, which seems likely to increase the risk of error when titrating. There are definitely more issues but these are some of the major ones. What do you think? Is this normal? Am I making a big deal out of nothing? Iy just seems that other infusion practices are far more thorough.

Specializes in Physiology, CM, consulting, nsg edu, LNC, COB.

Has anybody bothered to contact the infusion nurses professional organization for their published standards? Seems like that might be a good idea that your risk manager might back. 

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