top meds used in the hospital

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I would love to have a list from several different hospital departments of some of their top meds they use most often. If anyone's has a suggestion of how to get this info, a list that they have, or know of a website to get this info from please let me know. thanks, thanks, thanks

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Specializes in tele, oncology.

No idea where to send you to for a list, but I work tele/oncology, here's some classes that we use alot:

Beta-blockers

Ace inhibitors

Nitros

Anticoagulants

Insulins and oral hypoglycemics

Steroids

Pain meds (mostly percocet, dilaudid, and morphine)

Ativan for chemo induced nausea

Everyone gets a PPI (Nexium is our standard)

Cholesterol lowering agents

Anti-arrythmics

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Specializes in med/surg, telemetry, IV therapy, mgmt.

I don't know that there is a list of the top drugs used by the hospitals, but RxList.com (http://www.rxlist.com/script/main/hp.asp) always has the top 200 drugs dispensed by prescription on their website on its home page. You can link into them by alphabetically or by top seller (would you believe Lipitor is at the top of the list today?). You can get manufacturer monographs for most of the drugs on Drugs.com (http://www.drugs.com/).

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Specializes in Utilization Management.

I'd also suggest browsing through our Med Savvy forum: https://allnurses.com/forums/f279/

Lots of great information in there!

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Meds we use commonly:

Protonix (we use on pretty much everyone)

Heparin SubQ or Lovenox SubQ (same thing- most people get one)

For pain:

Morphine IV (for immediate relief)

Oxyfast (short-acting)

Oxycontin (long acting - 12 hour- pain med)

sometimes: Fentanyl patches

For anxiety:

Ativan (most common), or

Xanax

For pooping:

Colace

Sennokot

Senna-S

Dulcolax

Lactulose (also brings down high potassium levels)

Miralax

Other meds we use a lot:

Lasix IV (to take extra fluid off)

I'm sure there are others, but this is what comes to mind. We see heart meds and BP meds, but there's no one med that I see all the time....

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Heparin SubQ or Lovenox SubQ (same thing- most people get one)

For the benefit of newbie students who might glance this way, it's worth noting that unfractionated heparin and fractionated heparin (enoxaparin/Lovenox) really aren't the same thing (though the low molecular weight enoxaparin molecules are of course present in the unfractionated heparin).

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The top 200 are listed on the home page at this site

Rxlist.com

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