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The Three-Cell OmniSupplier is a combination pharmacy-supply system from Omnicell.In ASCs We Trust!
August is National ASC Month, a month when employees, owners and advocates of ambulatory surgery centers celebrate and increase awareness of the many benefits...
If you're like most facility and nurse managers, high on your list of worries is preventing the theft of drugs and supplies from your surgery center. It's hardly surprising that oral drugs for depression, pain and anxiety tend to disappear, but it's somewhat alarming that such critical supplies as sutures, needles and implants also tend to "walk off." We asked the experts for ways to minimize the risk of this potentially dangerous and expensive problem.
1. Make security a priority. The first thing to do is to make the security of medications and critical supplies everyone's problem. "You need a consensus on this, so that security becomes a priority for everyone," says Matt Grissinger, RPh, medication safety analyst for the Institute for Safe Medication Practices.
If your staff isn't large, ask everyone for input on where meds should be stored, and how, says Mr. Grissinger. If your staff is too large to include everyone, form a team made up of a representative from every department.
1. Make security a priority. The first thing to do is to make the security of medications and critical supplies everyone's problem. "You need a consensus on this, so that security becomes a priority for everyone," says Matt Grissinger, RPh, medication safety analyst for the Institute for Safe Medication Practices.
If your staff isn't large, ask everyone for input on where meds should be stored, and how, says Mr. Grissinger. If your staff is too large to include everyone, form a team made up of a representative from every department.
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