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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
I know that sometimes we used to use patients own medication...especially if it was something unusual(didn't happen often)......and as for signing for everything, at handover, I don't see how using patients own medication would hinder that.
The patient hands over their medications on admission. The medications are placed in the ward medicine trolley, and administered by the nursing staff at medicine rounds.....I would imagine that at handover the nurses taking over do not physically check every medication in the round trolley.
And what has happened to the self medication system? This was being done on some wards(usually long term patients).....patients had their own locked medicine cabinet beside their bed.....they took the medications themselves at the time they would normally take them at home.
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The med cabinets are virtually standard now Margaret (well on the medical wards I've been on) but they are locked and the nurse on med rounds still give them out, maybe (in my case) with the exception of nebulisers which are usually written up as when needed