July 23, 2018: The past few months Julie Pickle, Karen Cothran and Mary Harris attended interprofessional staff meetings to find out how these partners promote Magnet excellence. Today’s spotlight is on Pharmacy.
What is the Pharmacy Team most proud of?
- Our culture, following ICARE values
- Day to day workflow
- People feel the work they do is acknowledge & appreciated
- Malaria presentation at City-wide Infectious Diseases week
How do you partner with nurses and other departments to provide unparalleled service, quality, safety and innovation?
- Provided education during RN Boot Camp
- Performed RN CE for diabetes
- Educated RNs about medication history process to increase patient med safety
- Asymptomatic Bacteriuria research study on Brazos 6
- Delirium alerts
- RN medication messaging requests instead of phone calls. Culture change.
- Participate in committees and shared governance councils
- Participate in care coordination rounds
- Patient education
- Pharmacy presence during code blue
- Outpatient education for diabetes group
- System anaphylaxis kit
- Expanded services of rheumatology
- Clinical pharmacist present on units
What are some of Pharmacy’s accomplishments?
- Successful transition to EPIC
- Hiring new pharmacists and technicians
- Magnet designation
- Implementing Dose Edge
- Winning the most creative pumpkin challenge
- Diabetes CE for nurses
- Nurses education about med rec
- All clinical pharmacists became officially BCPS
- Bio K implementation on 5 east to prevent C. diff
- Hurricane Harvey survival
- Clinical ICU pharmacists presentation to Fort Bend Fire department – emergency meds
- Adding ID pharmacist
- Coverage for outpatient infusion center with a clinical pharmacist
- Joining world sepsis day
- Created a process to outsource custom TPN to CAPS
- Most creative pumpkin and 1st place for table decoration at the 2017 chili cook off
- Evaluated IV to PO therapeutic interchange and reintroduction for antimicrobial stewardship & cost savings
- Intelliguard system – convert 94 crash cart trays to product
- Interprofessional collaboration to expand bariatric services
We are grateful for the Pharmacy Team and all their efforts to promote excellence at HMSL and in our community!
– Janet Leatherwood, CNO