Everything that goes into the IV room is alcohol'd and then put away in separate bins. Like other facilities, no cardboard boxes are allowed in the IV room. We have another room on where we keep overstock and only bring down what is needed for the IV room. This is to comply with the USP 797 standards.
Thank-you everyone who has replied, but maybe I should have been more specific. We have our "clean room" where we mix and a seperate room where we keep our stock. The surveyor said all the stock needed removed from orig. cardboard boxes even though it's in a differant room.
Name of Facility: 150 beds
City, State: Community
Years as a Buyer: < 1yr but a tech for about 17 years
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" Thank-you everyone who has replied, but maybe I should have been more specific. We have our "clean room" where we mix and a seperate room where we keep our stock. The surveyor said all the stock needed removed from orig. cardboard boxes even though it's in a differant room. "
This is how ours is set up also. We have an overstock area where we keep bags and IV supplies and they stay in there original packaging. And then we have a supply room off the IV room where we keep supplies for immediate use. We do not allow any carboard in there, everything is put into plastic bins.
Ruth - thats so funny that your real survery didn't mention it at all!
We are 797 compliant, but we also just don't keep any in the main part easier. Its just simpler to tell people "no cardboard" than "you can have it here, but not here.."
since we're heading down the path to 797 our people from supply replace our cart with the usual items.
you see we have 2 carts( 1 we keep in pharmacy and one we keep in supply) this way each day after 230pm we switch out our cart for the other one with a full supply of iv bags bottles and other stuff.
Name of Facility: hospital of the univ of pa pharmacy
