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Episode 918: What Happens If You Give a Cephalosporin to a Patient With Moderate, Severe, or Unknown Beta-Lactam Allergy?

Pharmacy Joe

Subscribe on iTunes , Android , or Stitcher The label of “penicillin allergic” usually sticks to a patient’s medical record forever. The trouble is that many recorded allergies are actually intolerances, such as nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. She experienced a rash to the nafcillin as an inpatient.

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Episode 937: Is your micro lab hiding susceptibility data from you?

Pharmacy Joe

Subscribe on iTunes , Android , or Stitcher When a hospital microbiology laboratory performs antimicrobial susceptibility testing using microdilution or disk diffusion methods, not all of the results are presented to clinicians in the medical record. Let me know in the comments below.

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Episode 696: Is your micro lab hiding susceptibility data from you?

Pharmacy Joe

Subscribe on iTunes , Android , or Stitcher When a hospital microbiology laboratory performs antimicrobial susceptibility testing using microdilution or disk diffusion methods, not all of the results are presented to clinicians in the medical record. Let me know in the comments below.

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Episode 749: Three reasons why 1 clinical pharmacist on the unit = 2 in the office

Pharmacy Joe

Certain aspects of the job require a quiet space to work, such as creating an in-service or presentation, or drafting a policy or procedure. But for the majority of the day, it is far more effective to be present on the nursing unit, elbow-to-elbow with patients and the care team. Here are three reasons why: 1.

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Episode 749: Three reasons why 1 clinical pharmacist on the unit = 2 in the office

Pharmacy Joe

Certain aspects of the job require a quiet space to work, such as creating an in-service or presentation, or drafting a policy or procedure. But for the majority of the day, it is far more effective to be present on the nursing unit, elbow-to-elbow with patients and the care team. Here are three reasons why: 1.

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Episode 661: Fentanyl Patch Safety in Hospitals

Pharmacy Joe

Transdermal fentanyl has no such feedback opportunity and a patient prescribed too high of a dose will continue to absorb it, presenting the opportunity for opioid overdose. Documentation within the medical record. This 3-step procedure includes: 1. Determination of indication 2. Review of prior opioid use 3.

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Episode 641: How Pharmacists Can Improve Their Working Relationships With Physicians (and Nurses)

Pharmacy Joe

Don’t get me wrong – I’m not suggesting that you don’t document necessary pieces of information in the medical record, or that you don’t document your interventions. But for basic interventions like I just described, it makes the physician look good when they “fix up” orders based on your informal recommendations.