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Comfy ORs - June 2014 - Outpatient Surgery Magazine

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2 2 O U T P AT I E N T S U R G E R Y M A G A Z I N E O N L I N E | J U N E 2 0 1 4 IDEAS That Work W ith our automated medication dispensing system, you type in the name of the drug and it opens the door or drawer where it's stored. For some cases, though, such as cataract or retina surgery, you need to pull 10 or 12 different medications. Instead of making our nurses type in each one, one at a time, we've sim- plified the process. We've programmed menu and preference settings into the system. Now we just have to pick a physician's name from a list, then pick from a list of procedures that he does, and the system will select all the drugs used in that procedure, without us having to type them in separately. It's a big time-saver. Jo Ann Johnson, RN St. John's Hospital Springfield, Ill. joann.johnson@hshs.org SUPPLY SHORTCUTS Program Physician Preferences Into Drug Dispenser EASE OF USE Jill Sisson, RN, demon- strates the drug dispenser's menus. OSE_1406_part1_Layout 1 6/6/14 3:44 PM Page 22

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