wound care supplies

[wyogypsy, RN]

Can treatment supplies (i.e., creams, powders) be placed in one drawer of the medication cart if they are not mixed in a drawer with anything else? It would be so much more efficient to have the MARs and TARs on one cart. If there is a big dressing change those supplies would be on the wound care cart, but mostly we have powders and creams.

Thank you!

[laderalis]

At my facility (mix of long-term and skilled), our bottom drawer on one side is full of treatment supplies and extra daily supplies (insulin needles, ETOH pads, Allevyn's, wraps, 4X4, 2x2, telfas, etc) Per our parent company's policy, creams and powders can't be placed in the top drawers (where we keep insulin, eye drops, ear drops, etc) so we put them either in the resident's bathroom in a locked cabinet or in the bottom drawer. If it is something specific to a certain resident, like nystatin powder, we keep it in the patient room. things like lube for suppositories we keep on the cart and put what we need to use in a cup so we aren't taking the whole tube in the room