Is your facility ready for survey? As a consultant pharmacist, I work with ambulatory healthcare facilities to continuously guide and support best practices to ensure patients are safer and surveys are easier, and in this blog, I share insights from my years of experience in this field.
Is your ambulatory care facility ready for survey? Ok, ok: that’s probably a rhetorical question as you never feel truly ready, right? Though surveys are routine events for facilities, they can still be unnerving. No matter how prepared you may be, it’s only human to become a bit anxious when faced with an unannounced ‘pop quiz’.
Full Time and Part Time Consultant Pharmacist – Massachusetts (North Shore), New Hampshire (Southern), Florida (Southern), Pennsylvania (North East)
In this week's post we discuss managing High Alert and Look-Alike-Sound-Alike medications. These medications require special attention because they can cause significant patient harm when used in error.
This week we talk about medication storage, shortened expiration dating and the big impact it can have on your survey results. Are you prepared?
