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We are a Magic 5.3 Hospital and we are trying to implement a system using common canisters for inhaler administration. We also have Omnicell 3000. There are several problems we are having and I thought the "L" would be a good resource to see how other hospitals are handling things.
- How is the medication charged? per puff or per cansiter?
- How do you keep Respiratory from keeping the inhaler in their pocket all day?
- What Joint Commission hoops did you have to jump through? i.e med security.
- What the best way to capture charges, stay in compliance and yet have a workable system in place that Respiratory would follow?
- How was it communicated to the Pharmacy that a certain patient would be on the common canister protocol as opposed to a patient not being on the protocol? i.e.a patient in isolation.
- Did you have to use two sets of mneumonics for the inhalers? i.e. a per puff entry as well as a whole canister entry.
Any and all help will be greatly appreciated. Our Hospital has the potential to save close to $20k per year but we are not sure if we will save anything if the system is too cumbersome. It could actually decrease productivity enough to negate any potential savings.
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