June 2017
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Maximizing Automation in the IV Compounding Process
Temperature Monitoring
June 2017 Supplement
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Many health care systems own outpatient facilities in addition to hospitals and other inpatient settings. Managing diversion prevention and compliance with DEA regulations in hospital-owned outpatient clinics, physicians’ offices, and ambulatory care settings can be a challenging task for the hospital-based pharmacist. However, as the medication experts, the pharmacy department must take ownership ... 
To ensure compliance with USP <800> Hazardous Drugs—Handling in Healthcare Settings and USP <797> Pharmaceutical Compounding—Sterile Preparations, health system pharmacists must have a comprehensive understanding of the chapters and the changes that must occur in their compounding practices to meet the requirements. In particular, the facilities requirements described in USP ... 
Extending beyond our traditional practice areas to influence strategic and transformative care delivery is within pharmacists’ DNA. Yet, our profession seems to remain relatively content operating within its conventional role. While the value of having a senior-level pharmacy leader at the executive table is undisputed, imagine the possibilities if pharmacy leaders acquired other senior level ... 
While most hospital pharmacies deliver almost all medications to the units in bar coded unit dose, they do not necessarily arrive at the loading dock in that format. The ability to consistently purchase medications in bar coded unit dose is far from guaranteed, and in practice, unit dosed availability is constantly fluctuating. In response, this often requires remapping of NDCs, labeling syringes, ... 
Hazardous drugs (HDs) are any drugs that may exhibit carcinogenic, teratogenic, developmental, reproductive, or organ toxicity in humans or animals, and include genotoxic drugs or new drugs that mimic existing HDs in structure or toxicity. USP Chapter <800> Hazardous Drugs--Handling in Health Care Settings, which establishes practices and quality standards for handling HDs to promote patient ...
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