We have to COUNT drugs like lisinopril and Claritin

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Yesterday.....was pulling meds. The pyxsis asked for a count for lisinopril and claritin. I called pharmacy to see if they had these drawers programmed wrong. Nope. People have been stealing it. WTH? I believe the pharmacy said, "large quantities of it." Prilosec too.

Does this happen at your facitlity?

Do people steal things from your break room, too?

just a curious!

Specializes in ICU, ER.

Threads like these make me happy that I live and work in Canada.

ETA: I mean due to counting expensive drugs. Not that nurses don't steal meds here obviously...

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We have to count Tylenol bottles, vaseline guaze, little things of Toot Sweet (yes pyxis there is really 368 in there, like I'm going to count THAT!), eye drops, suppositories, and a multitude of other things.

What is Toot Sweet?

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Specializes in LTC Rehab Med/Surg.

We never knew which pill we would have to count. The expensive antibiotics were the most common.

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thank you so much for your respond, try to send you PM and i was not able to do so but here is my email [email protected].

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Ah, the good o'l days when Staff was allowed to take meds out for Personal Use! But let one Nurse decides she needs some Soma and another Nurse mistake a Potent Psychotropic for Tylenol and Personal Use goes out the window.

But what are ya gonna do?

Dave[/quo

Do not understand this post AT ALL. Soma for personal use? Ah, must be a troll.

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