Bedside Medication Storage

Implementing bedside barcode reading.

Bedside medication storage.

About 60 000 young children end up in emergency rooms each year because they got into medicines while an adult wasn t looking. 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. With bedside storage the responsibility often falls on the nurses to stock the medications from a medication room. At 24 inches it s the widest option on the list and it features 6 pockets and cable.

Currently these medications are to be stored in the resident s room in a locked drawer or box. 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. If you need your bedside caddy to provide you with tons of storage space go with this hanging pocket option. 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.

As our bedside medication project draws to a close we look to the next step in improving medication safety. When you consider that controlled and refrigerated medications as well as floor stock are also kept in medication rooms or automated dispensing devices nurses will still go to more than one location to gather medications.