USP <797>
This is the BUD for Category 1 sterile preparations at controlled room temperature.
What is 12 hours?
This color marks medications as hazardous.
What is Orange?
This test ensures that the eyewash stations are functioning appropriately.
What is a bump test?
This is an unwanted, uncomfortable, or dangerous effect that a medication can cause.
What is an adverse drug reaction?
These types of medications are reserved either for use by Infectious Disease, or require pre-authorization from Infectious Disease for their use.
What are restricted antimicrobials?
This line separates the clean side on an ante area from the dirty side.
What is a line of demarcation?
This is the only type of medications listed in table 1 of NIOSH's List of Hazardous Drugs.
What are antineoplastics?
These are the expanded acronyms of RACE and PASS.
RACE: Remove, alarm, confine, extinguish/evacuate
PASS: Pull, Aim, Squeeze, Sweep
Heparin is an example of this type of medication, which requires additional precautions.
What is a high-risk medication?
This is a standard metric used to track Antibiotic Use.
What is Days of Therapy (per 1,000 patient days)?
This is the name of the current Secondary Engineering Control at SBSH.
What is a Segregated Compounding Area (SCA)?
This supplemental engineering control prohibits the transfer of environmental contaminants and escape of HD or vapor concentrations.
What is a closed-system drug transfer device?
This application can help staff find manufacturer's Instructions for Use (IFUs).
What is One Source?
This list identifies formulary medications that may be phonetically or visually similar.
What is the look-alike sound-alike list?
This allows Pharmacists to improve patient safety by reducing the need for intravenous access for antibiotics.
What is intravenous to oral therapy conversion (IV to PO)?
This is the frequency at which all compounding staff must be assessed for competency in aseptic manipulation (media test).
What is every 6 months?
This item is kept in areas where HD drugs are handled, including all nursing units, as a precaution.
What is a Spill Kit?
This tool is used by staff to report workplace violence incidents.
What is SBSafe?
These types of medications were recently changed to be locked and secured when not in use, and are usually denoted by red containers.
What are neuromuscular blocking agents (NMBAs)?
This document is published yearly and is an overall profile of antimicrobial susceptibility testing results of a specific microorganism to a battery of antimicrobial drugs.
What is an antibiogram?
This is the BUD for Category 2 sterile preparations at controlled room temperature.
What is 4 days?
This evaluation allows facilities to use different handling precautions for medications in tables 2 and 3 of NIOSH's List of Hazardous Drugs than what is described in USP <800>.
What is an Assessment of Risk?
These individuals have the authority to turn off the medical gas flow through the hospital.
Who are the Director of Facilities and Engineering or designee and Director of Respiratory or designee?
These are the required elements of a titration orders.
What are: medication name, route, initial rate of infusion, incremental units the rate can be changed, frequency of incremental dose changes, max dose/rate, and objective clinical endpoint.
Guidelines were introduced through the Antibiotic Stewardship committee to guide treatment for these two conditions.
What are Community-acquired Pneumonia and Urinary Tract Infections?