Medicine Crusher's

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I've noticed that the medicine crusher's are not being taking care of at all. Nurses keep crushing medicine's even though it has residue from other medications. What if there is a patient that might be allergic to one of the medicines that have been crushed? Is this common in hospitals?

Sandra

Um...that is just lazy. If you get pill dust on it....Clean it!

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Specializes in Geriatrics, ICU, OR, PACU.
Our facility employs the Silent Knight crushers where you drop the pills into a small plastic sac, crush, and mix. The residue typically does not escape the plastic sac during the process of crushing the pills.

We also use these--I remember when we switched from the old "bangers" to these--the resident's were THRILLED! They should be mandatory, IMHO.

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Specializes in LTC, Disease Management, smoking Cessati.
Um...that is just lazy. If you get pill dust on it....Clean it!

I think that was said. Try cleaning it without using some sort of protection between 150 LTC residents.... :::sigh:::

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I really love the Silent Knight crusher too. My unit got them a couple of months ago.

I crush my pills inside their packaging.

This works well with just about everything that goes through an NG tube.

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