Controlled drug question

Suzanne we treat oromorph as a controlled drug with 2 nurses to sign it out.

You see that is what I have always practiced and thought was correct, however i asked to see the policy on the ward with regards not keeping it locked up and single checking and it was there in black and white.

10 mg in 5ml oramorph is only PoM although many places treat it as a CD ... the cut off is something like 14mg in 5 ml

edited to add

there seems to be a problem over medicines management knowledge ... there's quite a bit of information in the front of the BNF about controlled drugs stuff...

do you want to here someonething else crazy - codiene is actually class b under the misuse of drugs act, but certain prepations are 'p'list ( e.g. 8/500 co codamol and some codiene containing cough medicine)

In the NHS it was treated as a controlled drug on all the wards I worked on but where I am now they don't treat it as such! When I started working there I locked it in the controlled drug cupboard but it is still not included in the check book. I spoke to the pharmacy about it but they were & still are adamant that it does not have to be kept as a controlled drug. I still disagree - it's morphine plain & simple & morphine is a controlled drug!

A patient may only be on 10mg but the bottle contains many more doses than just one!

its not controlled on my ward its a bottle in the drugs trolley

or in 5ml plastic vial

hi suzanne7575,

its a controlled drug on my ward regardless of dose, its morphine!!! very strange, however different places may have different policies. you just keep yourself right and document, document, document.

what about temazepam?

thats not controlled in my hospital either, but it used to be

what about temazepam?

thats not controlled in my hospital either, but it used to be

Temazepam is still controlled here in Tayside

temazepam is a controlled drug in manchester

all strong opiates morphine/fentayl and iv codeine

all double signed (bar our computer system in A&E where u need a accoutn and pin and enter the pt name drug and dose.)

We have a temazepam book, it's separate to the controlled drug book but is essentially the same thing.

I can't get my head around the fact that they sort of control temazepam but are quite happy to leave 200ml bottles of oramorph in the general drugs cupboard.

when did any procedure in the NHS make sense though? lmao

Come to the states. A freakin' 0.25 lorazepam is treated the same as morphine sulfate.