I just started a new job as a policy and procedure writer for a hospital here in Los Angeles. I am in need of help regarding my latest assignment.
Instead of Googling an answer, I would rather hear it from the source...from you!
I was tasked to write a policy and procedure memo on how to check in routine monthly medications...cycle meds.
If anyone of you fine nurses can help me and let me know how you go about checking in routine medication and if you have a policy or procedure just for that, I'd love to hear about it.
I work LTC. We get meds delivered from an off site pharmacy. The case comes in and has an inventory sheet. We are supposed to verify that we get is on the sheet (blister packs etc) We get a copy, the delivery driver gets a copy. We also sign the hand held computer and a paper sheet for them.
A lot depends on who essentially owns the meds in the facility's stock. The type of facility you're referring to can't require patients to provide their own meds, or provide the service of aquiring and storing meds that are billed to the patient, your medication administration and stock is the same as that of an inpatient hospital, where patients are administered medications from hospital stock. So how you take in, store, and track medications that are facility stock would depend on state specific regulations.
PierreB
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Merci!