Methadone Dispensing

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I just srarted working in a Methadone Clinic and the wafers are 40 mg and they are scored. The problem is they are broken by hand. Does anyone else do this? There is a bottle of hand sanitizer to use. I am so uncomfortable doing this. Counting the wafers in front of the patients and breaking them by hand just doesnt seem to be correct.

Toogie

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I just srarted working in a Methadone Clinic and the wafers are 40 mg and they are scored. The problem is they are broken by hand. Does anyone else do this? There is a bottle of hand sanitizer to use. I am so uncomfortable doing this. Counting the wafers in front of the patients and breaking them by hand just doesnt seem to be correct.

Toogie

Why can't they simply provide a pill cutter? That's strange.

Kelly

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I just srarted working in a Methadone Clinic and the wafers are 40 mg and they are scored. The problem is they are broken by hand. Does anyone else do this? There is a bottle of hand sanitizer to use. I am so uncomfortable doing this. Counting the wafers in front of the patients and breaking them by hand just doesnt seem to be correct.

Toogie

I am not nearly as concerned about breaking the wafers by hand as I am counting them in front of the pt. This is, after all a Methadone Treatment Facility!

I wouldn't want them to see any more than the one dose they are getting.

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Why can't they simply provide a pill cutter? That's strange.

Kelly

That's what I was thinking! :uhoh21:

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