Narc Scrips-- hearings in Congress

[actioncat]

I just read in the Wall Street Journal that they are going to investigate the new(ish) regulations that requires a hard copy of a scrip before pharmacies allow you to dispense narcotics. I am sure that this has been burdensome to everyone and does not promote good patient care. I would suggest you contact your senator and representative and make your voice heard.

[Zen123]

Finally!

[Muffy5]

Thanks for posting this! This change has been infuriating working in LTC. My poor residents with chronic pain issues have went without on two occasions due to this change. Your lucky if you can get a doc to call you back and when you work weekends, forget about it, the on-calls with flat out refuse to offer an Rx. So I go in, tell so and so, they're not going to get their Dilaudid, how about some extra-strength Tylenol?!

[sharpeimom]

i already have!:)

kathy

shar pei mom:paw::paw:

[actioncat]

for those who aren't sure how to contact your congressperson:

http://www.senate.gov

http://www.house.gov

[CapeCodMermaid, RN]

The hearings are happening soon spurred on by more than one prominent group: the American Medical Directors Association, the Clinical Pharmacist Association, and the National Association of Directors of Nursing. The hearings are starting....write, email and call whomever you can. There are rumors that soon we will need scripts for Ativan, Vicodin, etc etc.

[SuesquatchRN, BSN, RN]

Done.

[actioncat]

The hearings are happening soon spurred on by more than one prominent group: the American Medical Directors Association, the Clinical Pharmacist Association, and the National Association of Directors of Nursing. The hearings are starting....write, email and call whomever you can. There are rumors that soon we will need scripts for Ativan, Vicodin, etc etc.

Actually, the regulations do include ativan, vicodin, xanax, darvocet, etc.-- that part just started at my facility a few months ago.

[CapeCodMermaid, RN]

My pharmacy hasn't caught up then. We only need scripts for Percocet, Morphine--any kind, dilaudid ..that's it so far.

[sharpeimom]

probably a dumb question, but here goes anyway...

my husband has ocd and takes buspar, per advice of his psychiatrist. we're very rural and his psychiatrist covers a four county area. is buspar on the infamous list? i feel totally out of the

loop since i'm disabled now and unable to work any more. i can't imagine the ensuing nightmare if he

can't have scrips just called in any longer. it would require a drive of an hour each way to get a paper scrip. my husband is absolutely unorganized (being organized and making lists used to be my job)

and despite gentle:uhoh3: nagging, he frequently doesn't even realize he is completely out of pills and has no refills left and it is left up to me to call the office where the psychiatrist happens to be that day and request a new scrip. he is given an extra scrip that we just have filled without going through our rx plan, to cover his prn doses, but he still drives me nuts!

thanks for putting up with my mini rant!!

kathy

shar pei mom:paw::paw:

[SuesquatchRN, BSN, RN]

I don't think that Buspar is a controlled substance. I know my Xanax needs a paper scrip for every renewal and that's and hour r/t.

[sharpeimom]

i don't think that buspar is a controlled substance. i know my xanax needs a paper scrip for every renewal and that's and hour r/t.

thanks sue!

it's so difficult to describe what happened to my brain after the cva six years ago. it's as though someone reached inside one ear and plucked random stray facts out with a pair of tweezers. facts ranging from the very ordinary to the remote to the very complex. my stroke was a follow up to a ruptured temporal lobe aneurysm when i was 13 months old. after being too embarassed and self conscious to ask, now i just find out what i need to know by asking whomever i need to ask.

thanks for the quick answer.

kathy

shar pei mom:paw::paw: