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Once a finished chemotherapy preparation leaves the hazardous buffer room, a variety of staff members, including pharmacists, delivery staff, nursing, and environmental services, may touch the preparation during its lifecycle. The safe handling practices conducted within the containment primary engineering control (C-PEC) are as critical for the compounder’s protection as they are for... Read more
Q&A with Bri Robinson, PharmD, MS Manager of Home Delivery Pharmacy OperationsCleveland Clinic
Pharmacy Purchasing & Products: At Cleveland Clinic, what service lines are supported by the pharmacy’s central fulfillment center?
Bri Robinson, PharmD, MS: Cleveland Clinic’s central fulfillment center (CFC) dispenses medications for the specialty pharmacy, home... Read more
Sterile compounding relies on clean, controlled, and orderly cleanroom environments, making aseptic technique foundational to this work. However, hazardous drug (HD) spills remain an unavoidable reality in pharmacy practice. A vial may slip from gloved hands during preparation, fall while being transported to the biological safety cabinet (BSC), or break during restocking. Such events pose exposure... Read more
While not yet widespread, RFID adoptions are growing across hospital pharmacy as interest in this technology is rapidly expanding. It is easy to appreciate the clear wins from RFID-driven process changes that improve common problems like low scan rates, inaccurate stock counts, and incomplete purchasing data without requiring pharmacy to engage in the thankless task of changing practitioner behavior.... Read more
With the perpetually increasing costs of medications and labor, there is a simultaneous need to reduce medication waste to counterbalance these rising expenditures. One way hospitals can identify opportunities to reduce waste and its associated costs is by implementing enhanced tracking for medications from ordering through administration. Depending on a hospital pharmacy’s size and distribution... Read more
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