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Our Pharmacy and Nursing are kinda having a struggle on who should do what. Currently, this is our process which we just implemented: 1. Nursing collects the Home Meds list during the admission process. They also ask for the Pharmacy name and phone number. 2. The list gets printed thru a standard profile format report. 3. The report is shown to the physician where they can indicate whether it is a DC or Continue. 4. It is then faxed to pharmacy to enter it in the system. No Problem here. Now, when nursing can't obtain the medication list either from patient or family but somehow has the name of the pharmacy and the phone, they feel that Pharmacy has to call the outside pharmacy, obtain the list then enter it thru an NUR CDS. A trigger query will print an instruction to the nursing unit to print the profile, then nursing does Step 3 and 4 as above. Pharmacy feels that Nursing should be calling the outside Pharmacy and obtain the list themselves. How much involvement does your Pharmacy have in the Medication Reconciliation process? How does it work in your facility and would you mind sharing your process? Thanks in advance! Cristina G. Castillo, BSN, RN Manager, Clinical Informatics Pacific Alliance Medical Center 531 W. College St. Los Angeles, Ca 90012 Ph: (213) 437-4214 Fax: (213) 617-9203 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This electronic message is intended only for the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is confidential and protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, you are cautioned that use of its contents in any way is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please destroy it and notify the sender immediately by e-mail. _______________________________________________ meditech-l mailing list [email protected] http://mtusers.com/mailman/listinfo/meditech-l
