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Experience Improved Patient Care, Reduced Pharmacy Turnaround Times, Tighter Medication Security
Experience Improved Patient Care, Reduced Pharmacy Turnaround Times, Tighter Medication Security
AcuDose-Rx Users Experience Improved Patient Care, Reduced Pharmacy Turnaround Times, Tighter Medication Security
Aultman Hospital Canton, OH
Aultman Hospital is an independent community teaching hospital in Canton, Ohio utilizing a centralized pharmacy model. Spatial constraints dictate how we operate, said Jim Toohey, Aultmans director of pharmacy. We have a really long hallway configuration and needed to minimize nurses traveling to cabinets. The AcuDose-Rx cabinets give us sufficient capacity, and because we restock the cabinets once a day, the filling process is now quite efficient. Weve also improved efficiencies and met legal requirements in our dispensing process with the use of the FastEntry biometrics finger swipe device. Aultman Staff Nurse Tammie Albrecht, RN, PCCN, finds that the new cabinets have improved patient safety. In our old system, there were three or four different meds in a single drawer that would pop open. Our AcuDose-Rx cabinets feature high-capacity locking drawers, so when we dispense only the pocket of the selected medication can be opened, ensuring that we take out the correct medication. AcuDose-Rx has definitely improved patient safety, and the high capacity drawers enable us to address patient needs faster. Mimi Gozdan, RN, MSN, CNS, clinical informatics nurse, echoes that. Stat meds are stored in the AcuDose-Rx cabinets, and we can give an ad hoc or new order simply by scanning the information in. Once we have the physician order, we go to the cabinet and access the patient profile and select the med. We then go to the patient bedside, scan the ID band and the bar-coded medication to create the order for administration. We no longer have to wait for pharmacy to deliver the order so our patients arent waiting a long time for their medicine. I did a study and the average times on the old system was 6 to 8 hours whereas now its less than 1 hour. Weve reduced pharmacy turnaround time by 100 percent and at more 4,000 orders each day; this has made a huge difference in the care of our patients.
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