Narcotic Counting Book

[NurseKate16]

Hey everyone,

I'm a Registered Nurse at a Urology center that performs office based surgery in NJ. I have been tasked with finding a narcotic counting book to keep track of our narcotics(obviously). I am told that it needs to be bound and can not have loose pages so it is not something that I can create myself and put into a binder. Does anyone have any suggestsion on where to purchase a narcotic counting book? any websites,etc? I have looked on google and I am not coming up with anything. Thanks for your help.

[classicdame, MSN, EdD]

try calling a hospital pharamcy.

[caliotter3]

You can buy bound ledgers that have printed numbered pages in any big box office store.

[casi, ASN, RN]

Talk to the pharmacy that you use. My facility gets its narc books from pharm.

[LUV ALZ]

Pharmacy should send a narc sheet with each narc delivered. this provides proof of how many were deliverd as you both have to sign off for the count at delivery. Pages should be removable so that when a card is complete the narc sign off sheet can (should) be filed in the patients chart as it is part of their medical record. The narc sheets show how much was delivered, who took the delivery, who dispensed and when dispensed the medication to the patient.

[CoffeeRTC, BSN, RN]

Briggs is a company that has forms for healthcare,maybe they would have something.

I would call the pharmacy that you get the drugs from.

[GHGoonette, BSN, RN]

I think the US has moved away from the kind of schedule drug register such as we use in South Africa. Certainly when I read about narcotics and "wasting", the reference seems to be to a computerized system. The registers we use here provide the following info; date, time of administration, patient name, folder no, prescribing doctor, amount given, person administering, person checking and balance. On the left of these columns is a section devoted to receipt of drugs from the pharmacy, and to the right is another section where the controller, or administrator signs.

Each substance and strength thereof eg Pethidine 100mg, Pethidine 50mg, Morphine 10mg, or Morphine 15mg has its own page in the register.

An entry would look like this:

1/1/11 11h30 Mrs GH Goon 12345 Dr M Bone 10mg I.M. Nurse R/N I.M. Nurse-Too LPN 14

If the amount given is less than what is in the ampule, the wasted amount is written on the next line.

If you cannot find a company that prints such registers, you should find out what the regulations are regarding written recording of drugs and draw up your own template. You can then order your registers printed to your requirements.

There are also registers which are kept by pharmacists, which they complete according to drugs received and issued. If I remember rightly, there is a column where they enter the order or script number, but I am not familiar with them at all.

[ZippyGBR, BSN, RN]

as goonette says ( with regard to Seth Effrica) these registers are a standard feature of hospital based practice in the Uk as well , i'd be suprised if there isn't someone making or importing them to the USA , as others have suggested hospital pharmacies may be worth a try to see if they have a contact ...