Bedside Medication Storage

A pharmacy assistant checked the bedside medication lockers of admitted patients against the current inpatient medication charts twice a week for 2 months in a surgical ward of an australian tertiary hospital.

Bedside medication storage.

These emergency visits can be prevented by always putting every medicine up and away and out of children s reach and sight every time you use it. About 60 000 young children end up in emergency rooms each year because they got into medicines while an adult wasn t looking. With bedside storage the responsibility often falls on the nurses to stock the medications from a medication room. As with the medication cabinets project our barcode project will use the components of the magnet model to drive the assessment implementation and evaluation processes.

Currently these medications are to be stored in the resident s room in a locked drawer or box. A secure area for storage of life saving medication will be available for bedside medication so that other residents do not have access to the drug. Non medicated products may be stored in the resident s bedside drawer or cabinet. As our bedside medication project draws to a close we look to the next step in improving medication safety.

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