medications: take home packs

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what are your thoughts? :confused:

take home packs????????? what do ya think?

Specializes in Emergency Room/corrections.

back to the original topic.... take home packs of medications.

IMHO it makes my job easier, I dont have to count the narcs and they are already packaged. It helps speed up the discharge process and the sooner we get em discharged the sooner the room is empty.

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Originally posted by veetach

back to the original topic.... take home packs of medications.

IMHO it makes my job easier, I dont have to count the narcs and they are already packaged. It helps speed up the discharge process and the sooner we get em discharged the sooner the room is empty.

sorry, what is imho?

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Specializes in Emergency/Critical Care Transport.

I've often thought that if we had a big honking candydish, like my grandma used to have on her coffee table filled with percocet tabs on the clerks desk we could cut our through times to nil. :chuckle

PS: Magikgirl, IMHO is short for In My Humble Opinion/

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Originally posted by Medic946RN

I've often thought that if we had a big honking candydish, like my grandma used to have on her coffee table filled with percocet tabs on the clerks desk we could cut our through times to nil. :chuckle

PS: Magikgirl, IMHO is short for In My Humble Opinion/

thanks for clearing that up!

i agree with the candy dish but careful, i got in trouble for suggesting a percocet drive thru!!!!!!!!!!

see ya in the funny papers!:D

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Specializes in Emergency Room/corrections.

Can we add Vicodin to the candydish?? It seems like we hand out as much Vicodin as we do Percocet anymore.:roll

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Originally posted by veetach

Can we add Vicodin to the candydish?? It seems like we hand out as much Vicodin as we do Percocet anymore.:roll

vicodin! how true!

"vita meda vegin! it's so tasty, tastes just like candy!!!!!!!!!!"

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you know we have gotten "critisized" for saying things like the "percocet drive through" - but for those in pain - it would be a god-send compared to an er visit where you might be accused of seeking -

for all the others who are just seeking - it would cut down on er visits as well..... win-win situation

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Originally posted by athomas91

you know we have gotten "critisized" for saying things like the "percocet drive through" - but for those in pain - it would be a god-send compared to an er visit where you might be accused of seeking -

for all the others who are just seeking - it would cut down on er visits as well..... win-win situation

nice one!

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Originally posted by athomas91

you know we have gotten "critisized" for saying things like the "percocet drive through" - but for those in pain - it would be a god-send compared to an er visit where you might be accused of seeking -

for all the others who are just seeking - it would cut down on er visits as well..... win-win situation

Oh yeah! The clerk could just ask, do you want meds or do you really need to see a physician? And then she could point to the candydish with the percocet, vicodin, work notes etc. Yep folks I think we got this ER overcrowding problem licked.

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Originally posted by Medic946RN

Oh yeah! The clerk could just ask, do you want meds or do you really need to see a physician? And then she could point to the candydish with the percocet, vicodin, work notes etc. Yep folks I think we got this ER overcrowding problem licked.

:D CAB VOUCHERS! you must not forget the cab vouchers!

:kiss

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and the lunch bags..... percocet, lunch, and a ride home....we'd cut visits by 50%

oh....... work note......

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Originally posted by athomas91

and the lunch bags..... percocet, lunch, and a ride home....we'd cut visits by 50%

oh....... work note......

yeah! don't for get the work note!:devil:

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