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On a professional level, the new year is a perfect time to renew your commitment to avoiding bad surveys. But New Year’s resolutions are hard to keep, right? Wrong! Although going to the gym at 4am seven days a week may be a resolution that eventually proves too hard to follow, this week we discuss some of the strategies your consultant pharmacist can suggest to help you keep your resolution to avoid poor survey outcomes.
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New Year’s Resolution…Avoiding Poor Survey Outcomes.

On a professional level, the new year is a perfect time to renew your commitment to avoiding bad surveys. But New Year’s resolutions are hard to keep, right? Wrong! Although going to the gym at 4am seven days a week may be a resolution that eventually proves too hard to follow, this week we discuss some of the strategies your consultant pharmacist can suggest to help you keep your resolution to avoid poor survey outcomes.

Although the debate about whether to use intracameral antibiotics marches on, what is not in question is our collective desire to give patients the best and safest possible outcome. For the facilities contemplating intracameral antibiotics, which drug should you use? What is the best way to prepare it or obtain it? These are all valid questions you should ask. Use the expertise of your consultant pharmacist to help navigate these difficult, but extremely important decisions. Making the right choice will increase patient safety and reduce risks. The wrong decision could be devastating.
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Is your facility using Intracameral Antibiotics?

Although the debate about whether to use intracameral antibiotics marches on, what is not in question is our collective desire to give patients the best and safest possible outcome. For the facilities contemplating intracameral antibiotics, which drug should you use? What is the best way to prepare it or obtain it? These are all valid questions you should ask.
Use the expertise of your consultant pharmacist to help navigate these difficult, but extremely important decisions. Making the right choice will increase patient safety and reduce risks. The wrong decision could be devastating.

Use of automated dispensing cabinets (ADCs) is common in many facilities. They can increase convenience and medication availability for the patient, but are they safe? As consultant pharmacists, our goal is to work with each facility to ensure they follow a process that increases efficiency and patient safety. How do you handle risky situations such as overrides or the removal of medications without an order? Do you have high-alert medications?
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Are automated dispensing cabinets (ADCs) risky?

Use of automated dispensing cabinets (ADCs) is common in many facilities. They can increase convenience and medication availability for the patient, but are they safe? As consultant pharmacists, our goal is to work with each facility to ensure they follow a process that increases efficiency and patient safety. How do you handle risky situations such as overrides or the removal of medications without an order? Do you have high-alert medications?