Keeping track of monthly inj.

[historylovinglpn]

My 1st week off orientation and I am finding HUGE errors with missed monthly injections, i.e Haldol Dec, Abilify, Aristada..etc. I am seeing injections that are on the Mar that were missed this month and some were not given at all since June! Is there another way you guys keep track of inj? Some kind of charting system for the whole nursing staff? Everyone i inject i put in my own notebook and when i get the sept MAR I'll plan to transfer the ones i gave with the next due date(we are still doing paper charting). I dont want to have yet another piece of paper to annoy my fellow nurses that might get lost or just more work. I feel confident in keeping track of the patients i medicate, but there are quite a few who don't get medicated by me during my med pass,(at least 5 i found by just putting in new orders and while adding in new meds, realizing they were missing monthly injections.) Had i not put in their new orders i would never have found these errors. I would like to have some sort of system apart from the Mar since too many injections are being missed.

[oncivrn]

What setting is this?

[historylovinglpn]

I work in a psych facility. No computers. Paper charting. Heck even our checks are live.. and not direct deposited. Anyways, since I posted this, I designed a simple Excel reminder sheet. Hoping that will do the trick. The MAR should be enough but too many things are getting dropped.

[Gotoahappyplace]

At the facility I used to work at we had a med room only nurses could go in. One person was delegated with the task of making a list of all inj. Due that month with pt. first name posted on our board. The nurse who administered said inj that day would check it off. You'd have to be careful with HIPAA and who sees the list but it worked for us...we had paper everything also.