Time Compliance for Medication

sorry · Oct 1, 2011

I'm not sure what you are asking.

What I am asking? when you have 28-30 patients and they all have the meds schedule for 8am..yes you might be able to get to 3 patients by 8:30 but now it's 10 and you are still passing meds. What happen to the 1 hour before and 1 hour after time frame?

brownbook · Oct 1, 2011

Please, please, please look up the Institute for Safe Medication Practice on the Internet. ISMP is all you need to type in.

It did a wonderful evidence based survey on med schedules. The conclusion was a strict time frame, whatever that time frame might be, leads to errors and strict schedules should not be a part of any drug delivery policy.

It is full of useful information about safe medication delivery, sound alike drugs, everything you could want to know about the safe delivery of drugs.

CoffeeRTC, BSN, RN · Oct 3, 2011

Sounds like you are in LTC with that many patients. Go over to the LTC fourm and you will see tons of advice for this.

sorry · Oct 3, 2011

Please, please, please look up the Institute for Safe Medication Practice on the Internet. ISMP is all you need to type in.
It did a wonderful evidence based survey on med schedules. The conclusion was a strict time frame, whatever that time frame might be, leads to errors and strict schedules should not be a part of any drug delivery policy.
It is full of useful information about safe medication delivery, sound alike drugs, everything you could want to know about the safe delivery of drugs.

Thank you for the information:yeah: