Bedside Medication Storage

As our bedside medication project draws to a close we look to the next step in improving medication safety.

Bedside medication storage.

If you need your bedside caddy to provide you with tons of storage space go with this hanging pocket option. Non medicated products may be stored in the resident s bedside drawer or cabinet. Currently these medications are to be stored in the resident s room in a locked drawer or box. With bedside storage the responsibility often falls on the nurses to stock the medications from a medication room.

At 24 inches it s the widest option on the list and it features 6 pockets and cable. When you consider that controlled and refrigerated medications as well as floor stock are also kept in medication rooms or automated dispensing devices nurses will still go to more than one location to gather medications. Implementing bedside barcode reading. These emergency visits can be prevented by always putting every medicine up and away and out of children s reach and sight every time you use it.

As with the medication cabinets project our barcode project will use the components of the magnet model to drive the assessment implementation and evaluation processes. A pharmacy assistant checked the bedside medication lockers of admitted patients against the current inpatient medication charts twice a week for 2 months in a surgical ward of an australian tertiary hospital.