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It’s not simply the particular giving of the medications that fare up all the time. It is checking the medical record with the hand written prescriptions, grouping the varied medications and also the instrumentation for giving them, and ensuring all the patients safety measure are covered.

Most consumables used in healthcare have a use by date and will need to be replaced, at haxby we check stock weekly to make sure it is all in date. some pieces of equipment/drugs can be ruined by temperature or sunlight.

This essay is about why lab procedures and practice must be communicated in a lab.

Organisational policy and procedures should include how to receive and record medication, safe storage, prescribing, dispensing, administration, monitoring and

In the classroom, it is very important to have lab safety. In a hospital pharmacy, lab safety is essential to ensuring a safe dosage to each patient. Throughout my time interning as a pharmacist at the UVM Medical center, I was often observing how much pharmacists used DoseEdge software. DoseEdge automated system that assists the process of dose routing and preparation. This product of Baxter has allowed the tasks of pharmacy change. The focus of my project was “How does current and future technology affect efficiency and accuracy in pharmacy practice?”. Through my research of Baxter’s website, articles about their product, and reports of advancing technologies in pharmacy, I found that DoseEdge is very successful in productivity and safety in the workplace. Before DoseEdge, everything was required to be prepared by hand. This required a lot of responsibility for for pharmacists and technicians to make the correct dosage in the quickest manner. Medicine is very important to a hospital, so it is very important to have the most efficient way in preparing and distributing it. This allows pharmacist to have a better way of double-checking the preparation of drugs. In each IV hood, there is an overhead camera that takes pictures of what drug and how much of it the technician is using. Pharmacist can view multiple orders all by computer without the need of being physically next to the technician. There are also requirements to have two pharmacists check the same order for high risk drugs like chemotherapy. This

The process for storing data must lead to the technician and if the sample shows odd results, the technician and must be contacted immediately. Therefore, basic information, such as the name and barcode of the product must be included with its hazard symbols. Also, background information of the products must be registered with the technician.

The hospital provides a slew of services to the community like acute hospitals, community hospitals, continuum care facilities, home-health agencies, ambulatory sites, and specialty institutes. If I was a part of the management of this organization my approach to managing supplies successfully will be to ensure the hospital

I hope you are well. I am sending this email to follow up with you regarding our lab services. You will find in this email how we can assist your company. Please note the attachments below. There are also references as well. I also wanted to list one example of the benefits of having our program. If you have any questions or concerns,please feel free to contact me.

After discussion with the Unit Director, I proposed to implement a solution that I thought would have a positive outcome with our current dilemma affecting time management. I completed a count of the Suction pressure regulators, Suction Canisters, Suction Canister disposable sleeve, Telemetry Wires, and Oxygen regulators that we currently had on hand and recorded the results. There was a deficiency in the amount according to how many patients we needed supply for so I sat with the Unit Director after conducting the count and had her place an order to our supply company for the additional units. I proposed to relocate these supplies to an available storage space on the unit so that the supplies would be in a more centralized location.

If not, they should be shown of the patient safety issue and what and how the cost is affecting the facility. Administrators and management can be shown percentages of each floor and the number of patients that have been affected by medication errors, increased stay at the facility, and how and what medication was issued. The administrators and management can be given a presentation by PowerPoint and researched documents about the medication errors and how it has helped other facilities nationwide and possible cost of the savings to the facility for implementation. The barriers would be cost of materials, timing of transition, staffing needs for training and medical staff unwilling for change in the facility. With medication errors on the rise, patient’s safety at hand, and cost of saving the facility money on preventative measures, the administrators should lean towards the

Knapford Corp. uses a periodic inventory system. Information related to Knapford's inventory for May is given below:

Office Depot uses multiple inventory strategies to order products. 90% to 95% of goods are ordered through automatic replenishment, manual replenishment, pull replenishment, and global sourcing are also used depending on channel, volume, velocity and cost. (Office Depot, 2015). The accuracy of the inventory from both a DC and store perspective is critical to the organizations success. Heizer and Render (2014) state that record accuracy is a prerequisite to inventory management, production scheduling, and sales. Accuracy is maintained by either periodic or perpetual systems (p.479). In Office Depot, the stores are required to cycle-count technology items such as laptops, desktops computers, and tablets five days a week. Discrepancies are entered in the system and bounced off the local DC’s on-hand inventory discrepancies. Office Depot is a “blind receive” organization meaning the stores receive pallets of products and simply unwrap and put them away. The only way a store knows if a product is missing is through the cycle-count program. This system was put into place to speed up the receiving process and eliminate unnecessary steps once the product was received at the store level. Office Depot conducts a full physical inventory once a year through a third party and trues up the inventory shrink at this time.

The Material Flow Committee (MFC) knew that there were many problems associated with this process and that they had to change. The people involved in this group were Sridhar Seshardi, who was the vice president of Process Excellence; Nick Gaich, who was the vice president for Materials Management; Candace Reed, who was the director of the Sterile Processing Department (SPD); and Joan Rickley, who was the director of the OR. The first step that was taken by this committee was a pilot project called the “Early Morning Instrument Prep.” This development would involve a neurosurgery nurse coming to the hospital in the early mornings to make sure that all supplies and instruments were where they would be required for neurosurgery. Another aspect of this project was to “Provide early data into possible sources of problems” (p. 5). Once the MFC had reviewed the data that came back from the “Early Morning Instrument Prep,” they decided the Hospital would greatly benefit from hiring an Implementation Specialist for Healthcare (ISH). The ISH is a firm that has a specialization in

The Distribution centers in the 5 regions order every 6 days using a periodic review while maintaining their safety stock levels to ensure a customer service level of 95% (Chopra, 323).

(FIFO) policy, minimum stock reorder for each item and periodic stock evaluation. One of the