Would you give a drug someone else pulled from a pyxis?

[squatmunkie_RN]

For example: if they handed you a pill still in the wrapper? You know it's the right pt/right med etc....there is an EMAR record.

I'm NOT talking about giving a syringe full of a medicine you have no way of confirming what exactly it is...(that should be obvious)

[SionainnRN]

We do it all the time in my ED cause we get pulled away in the middle of things for emergencies.

[TheCommuter, BSN, RN]

At the facility where I work, the night shift nursing staff pulls all of day shift's a.m. meds and leaves them in a locked medication cart. Management's rationale is that "day shift is too busy to pull the morning medications."

[eatmysoxRN, ASN, RN]

Sure. Why not?

~ No One Can Make You Feel Inferior Without Your Consent -Eleanor Roosevelt ~

[Genista, BSN, RN]

I don't see why not, either. If it is still in the packaging & you check the EMAR, why not?

[BrandonLPN, LPN]

At the facility where I work, the night shift nursing staff pulls all of day shift's a.m. meds and leaves them in a locked medication cart. Management's rationale is that "day shift is too busy to pull the morning medications."

are the meds still in labeled blister packs? Or are they just cups full of pills? I would feel really, really uncomfortable passing a cup of pills set up by another nurse. And I'd be uncomfortable as the night nurse having to set up meds I wouldn't pass....

[TheCommuter, BSN, RN]

are the meds still in labeled blister packs? Or are they just cups full of pills? I would feel really, really uncomfortable passing a cup of pills set up by another nurse. And I'd be uncomfortable as the night nurse having to set up meds I wouldn't pass....

The meds pulled from the Pyxis are still in their blister packs and unopened. Night shift pulls them and day shift is responsible for setting them up and administering them.

[OhioCCRN, MSN, NP]

Of course I feel comfortable.

Ex. If I'm in an isolation room and the patient wants a narcotic of some sort I refuse to un gown and go through the process, I'd rather have a coworker hand it to me to be administered . Make sense?

[Caffeine_IV]

Yes if it is unopened.

[Sun0408, ASN, RN]

In the scenario above, of coorifice. Many of us "pull" meds for our co-worker that are in rooms or dealing with situations and can't leave the pt..

[Rose_Queen, BSN, MSN, RN]

As long as it's not opened. It's not uncommon for our floater RN or surg tech to be pulling the medications for the next surgical case while we're finishing up the previous one.

[sharpeimom]

Sure, as long as the blister pack is intact. In a pill cup? No way!