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Hey All,
I am currently a pre pharm student and hoping to get into pharmacy school next year. Right now I am shadowing a hospital pharmacy in a small town and just getting the hang of things (pyxis...IV's etc.) its pretty fun and really interesting stuff. While learning about the Pyxis...I did ask what is done if a patient is in ER and the nurse needs medications out of the pyxis? Since the patient has just rolled into ER...I don't think he has his file/record on the pyxis or even on the hospital mainframe.....so how would you go in and take meds out of the machine without a name....to this i was told that the nurses can go ahead and just put a fictitious name out there temporarily to get stuff out and then its their responsibility to update the file and charge the patient.
I can understand this happening for a smaller hospital where the isn't a huge rush of patients in ER all the time....but what about bigger hospitals? Is there a special pyxis machine for ER that can deal with these problems? Just was curious.
Thanks in advance
Cheers
I am currently a pre pharm student and hoping to get into pharmacy school next year. Right now I am shadowing a hospital pharmacy in a small town and just getting the hang of things (pyxis...IV's etc.) its pretty fun and really interesting stuff. While learning about the Pyxis...I did ask what is done if a patient is in ER and the nurse needs medications out of the pyxis? Since the patient has just rolled into ER...I don't think he has his file/record on the pyxis or even on the hospital mainframe.....so how would you go in and take meds out of the machine without a name....to this i was told that the nurses can go ahead and just put a fictitious name out there temporarily to get stuff out and then its their responsibility to update the file and charge the patient.
I can understand this happening for a smaller hospital where the isn't a huge rush of patients in ER all the time....but what about bigger hospitals? Is there a special pyxis machine for ER that can deal with these problems? Just was curious.
Thanks in advance
Cheers