Missing Narcotics from a Hospital

[akaykay]

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I was asked this question as part of an assignment, but I don't really know how to answer as I do not know much about hospital pharmacies. Our teacher wants to know how we would go about investigating missing narcotics from a hospital when all we have our audits showing that morphine IV's have been missing for the past 3 months, and also how we would devise a plan to prevent it. I guess what I would do is review the narcotic log books for morphine for the past 3 months, see who was in charge for dispensing it, and which patients received morphine IV for the past 3 months and match them up to their nurses. As far as preventing goes, I would assume most hospitals have log books next to the patient carts/bins so that each time a nurse removes the med, they would have to sign for it??

This assignment is kinda boring 🙁

 

[johnep34]

Very necessary procedure, In UK we have ward pharmacists who would regularly check meds on wards, CD cupd would be checked on regular basis. Usual way of catching miscreants is to see who was on duty when meds went missing.
johnep

 

[StaviZFingerZ]

shouldn't you be asking this question to the people that work at the hospital?? Every hospital should have a policy and procedure that deals with narcotic discrepencies.

 

[aboveliquidice]

shouldn't you be asking this question to the people that work at the hospital?? Every hospital should have a policy and procedure that deals with narcotic discrepencies.

WRONG - Ask the nursing staff... yeah - the nurses no what to do...

 

[StaviZFingerZ]

WRONG - Ask the nursing staff... yeah - the nurses no what to do...

Nursing isn't considered people at the hospital?

 

[Transformer]

This assignment is fairly interesting to me.

In this world, we need evidence and that means we have to catch people in the act of stealing / not logging narcotics in the book.

What I would do is periodically count the medication that is regularly missing. This gives me a relative time frame of when the act is being done. Then, I would get the supervisor to look at the narcotic camera films at specific times when the drugs are missing and try to pinpoint/document which person is stealing or not logging in the Narc. book. The last step, is to catch the person in the act as the action is being carried out.

 

[VancTheTank]

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[Quiksilver]

WRONG - Ask the nursing staff... yeah - the nurses no what to do...

not to be a d ck but if you are going to try to send someone to the "burn unit" with your smartass reply, you should use the correct spelling of the word "know," just a pointer for future reference.

carry on...