RE:Med dilution policy

[Lynn Hadaway]

Title: RE:Med dilution policy

In hospitals where I have worked, the pharmacy has a standard dilution chart that was made available to the IV team and the dilution was printed on the label. The IV nurses could request the pharmacy to alter this standard dilution based on patient circumstances such as fluid restriction changed from 50 ml to 10 ml and was given on a syringe pump or changing D5W to NS for poorly controlled diabetics. Sorry I don't have an example of this list, but it can easily be taken from books like Intravenous Medications by Gahart and Nazareno. Every nurse giving IV medications of any kind must have access to this or a similar book about IV medications specifically. Regular drug references do not contain the IV-specific information. Lynn

At 3:01 PM -0700 7/24/06, Nauman, Tanya wrote:

I'm attaching this query to your message as I can't seem to send an original

message and have it go to the right place.....

  I also couldn't find anything about this subject in the archives...

Does anyone have a policy written re dilution of irritant drugs?

One of our nurse managers wants me to write a policy re routine

dilution of MSO4.  I hesitate to do this, as morphine certainly isn't the only

irritant drug needing dilution;  I also don't feel the policy should

state every drug needing dilution.  I could use the INS standard

regarding pH and osmolarity, but I doubt very much the nurses

are going to look this up every time on every med...so what are

you all doing?

Thanks for any info.

Tanya

IV Support

SHMC Eugene, OR

 

 

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