Hello!!! I am wanting to know how your hospital handle the 30ml multidose oral solution bottles, like Lorazepam, Methadone and Morphines. Does your facility send the entire bottle to the floors with a signout sheet for the nurse? Do you draw these up in syringes?
I have learned that Ethex is correcting their Morphine 20mg/ml oral solution pkts by labeling each packett where as before they were just a unlabled plastic vial. Which is great news - we will start using this one now.
Please let me know how you deal with this issue! Thank you so very much . Lori from North Carolina.

Name of Facility: 450

City, State: Acute Care Hospital

Years as a Buyer: 6

In my experience, most nursing units don't want to be responsible for multi-dose controlled substances. It has to be physically counted every shift, sometimes to the point of pouring it out or measuring via oral syringe.

The Pharmacy usually ends up drawing up doses, since these doses are so patient-specific. Nursing would rather have the Pharmacy take responsibilty of measuring, storage and waste.

If someone is in fact unit dosing oral doses - good luck with that!

Name of Facility: Kennedy Health System / 180

City, State: http://www.pharmacypurchasing.com

Years as a Buyer: >30 but Retired (for now...)

Lori,
Precision is very open to listening buyers needs. If you give them a list of items that you need in unit doses they may be able to get the ball rolling.

Name of Facility: 222 beds

City, State: Acute care teaching hospital Trauma II center

Years as a Buyer: 5 years

We just switched to the UD packets because our pharmacists didn't want to handle the concentrated bulk bottles anymore. Everyone has been happy so far...

Name of Facility: CVMC - 270 beds

City, State: Teaching

Years as a Buyer: Almost 1!