LTC med pass from PYXIS?

[BrandonLPN]

My facility will shortly be doing away with med carts, and the LPNs will have to do the entire med pass from a stationary PYXIS machine next to the dinning room. That's anywhere from 35-42 residents, all from a PYXIS. The logistics boggle my mind. We've been hearing roomers about this for months, but I assumed the new PYXIS machines would simply be supplemental, a place to get meds that we ran out of in the cart. But, no, we will be doing the entire pass directly from the PYXIS. Any other LTC facilities do this? It seems impossible.

[CapeCodMermaid, RN]

So you have to rely on someone else to pull your pills for you? Do all one resident's pills come in one package? I seem to remember some facility was closed down because they used a system in which the pharmacy would put all AM pills in a little bag, all PMs in another. Sounded good until the orders were changed and the little bags weren't.

The way to really solve this problem is to cut down on the numbers of medications people in LTC take.

[ADeks]

Maybe you could request for them to supply baggies that you can label for each patient. That way you could pull more than one patient's meds at a time and still keep them separate? Maybe save some trips