There's a current thread polling about waiting in a line at the pyxis, the time it takes to pull meds, etc.
I don't get interrupted too often by staff when I'm using the pyxis. The occasional RT to pull meds for breathing treatments or the pharmacy tech to fill some med(s), but usually it's the patients who'll interrupt. They start lining up outside the med room right before med time like Wal-Mart campers on Black Friday.
I refused to open the med room door even though they knock and scratch on it like crazed zombies.
I also refuse to answer the phone when I'm setting up meds. I figure if it's really important, they can call 911.
The Pyxis has its own personality. It's very anal and moves at its own pace. Cubies take forever to open, especially the ones containing acetylcholinesterase inhibitors. I may be wrong but I don't hold a lot of faith in them improving a patient's memory or reminding the cubie to open. I swear! The cubie that contains Aricept takes forever to open!
Okay. That's a start. What kind of Pyxis Problems have you experienced?
Specializes in Psych (25 years), Medical (15 years).
21 hours ago, ruby_jane said:
This one wins the internets today!!! And it makes me happy I'm no longer on a floor. My meds are kept in a giant locking Craftsman red box on wheels. The kind you'd normally see storing tools.
ruby_jane: The Judge of the "Daily Internets Winner!!!"
Your "giant locking Craftsman red box on wheels" reminds me of a story when I worked as an LPN on the psych unit at Weed Rover Township Hospital from 1984-86:
I usually worked as the med nurse while the RNs supervised and did their duties. Some of the patients would call the big orange metal med cart "The Drug Wagon" or various other uncomely names.
So, I had a contest with the patients to name the mad cart and I would act as the judge and select the winner. I chose the name I liked the most and lettered the winning entry on the med cart:
Sadly,I got written up for defacing hospital property and had to remove my artwork.
I believe that was the first of many times I got into trouble as a nurse.
HaHa, you forgot to add "to go" (I will take a Dilaudid to go). I have had patients in the hospital ask for their narcs to go, mind you they are not even supposed to be leaving the facility. Oh OK, here are your Norco's to go, have fun now, see you in a little while. UGH
There's a current thread polling about waiting in a line at the pyxis, the time it takes to pull meds, etc. 
Davey Do
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ruby_jane: The Judge of the "Daily Internets Winner!!!"
Your "giant locking Craftsman red box on wheels" reminds me of a story when I worked as an LPN on the psych unit at Weed Rover Township Hospital from 1984-86:
I usually worked as the med nurse while the RNs supervised and did their duties. Some of the patients would call the big orange metal med cart "The Drug Wagon" or various other uncomely names.
So, I had a contest with the patients to name the mad cart and I would act as the judge and select the winner. I chose the name I liked the most and lettered the winning entry on the med cart:
Sadly,I got written up for defacing hospital property and had to remove my artwork.
I believe that was the first of many times I got into trouble as a nurse.