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We will soon be implementing NUR/EMAR/BMV in our 5 hospitals. We only have Omnicells with profiling in 3 inpatient units, so far. All of our other units are supplied with meds via the cartfill process. We have implemented a few Omnicells without profiling for stock meds and narcs. We are wondering how other hospitals are using automated dispensing units (ADUs) once they are using BMV. Nursing-centric questions: 1. How does nursing view the continuing use of profiling ADUs once they have BMV and are preparing their patient's meds at the bedside? 2. Do nurses consider ADUs a benefit that helps their medication process, or a hindrance? 3. Do nurses prefer to first sign each med out of the ADU, and create their own "bin" for one or more of the meds for each patient? 4. Or do nurses prefer to get their patient's meds from a cart bin kept supplied by pharmacy? 5. Do nurses appreciate the value of non-profiling ADUs for stock meds and narcs? Pharmacy-centric questions: 6. Do you see the role of your ADUs changing now that your nursing units are using BMV? 7. If you have already replaced your cart fill process with med profiling ADUs prior to implementing BMV, are you continuing to use the profiling ADUs, or are you considering changing back to the cart fill process, now that you have BMV? 8. If you are still using the cart fill process for inpatient areas with BMV, are you going to move toward automated dispensing units (ADUs) with med profiling to replace your cart fill process? 9. Do you, as a pharmacist, feel that pharmacy should continue to own the cart fill process, or that nursing should now own the cart fill process? 10. If you are continuing to use the cart fill process, are you increasing your use non-profiling ADUs for inventory control of floor stock meds and narcs? Thank you, in advance, Dirk V. Lanning RN IS Systems Analyst (working with both pharmacy and nursing) Samaritan Health Services Albany, OR _______________________________________________ meditech-l mailing list [email protected] http://mtusers.com/mailman/listinfo/meditech-l
