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Questions to ask staff about medication labeling and patient hand-offs

Accreditation Connection, January 23, 2006

Medication labeling questions

Target audience: All clinical staff and clinical managers

1. True or false: The new National Patient Safety Goal (NPSG) on labeling of medications used in the perioperative and other procedural settings only applies to medications used on a sterile field.

2. Which of the following would require labeling if used during a procedure?

a. Solutions

b. Medications

c. Prefilled medication syringes

d. Prefilled medication containers

e. Empty medication containers

f. A, b, c, and d only

g. All of the above

3. True or false: The new NPSG on the labeling of medications used during procedures does not apply to procedures performed in interventional radiology.

4. True or false: Labeling of prefilled medication syringes, medication containers, and solutions used during a procedure applies to procedures done at the bedside.

Answers:

1. False. It applies to medications used on and off of the sterile field.

2. F. Labels must be used for solutions, medications, and prefilled medication syringes and containers.

3. False. The new NPSG on the labeling of medications applies to procedures performed in interventional radiology.

4. True. Labeling of prefilled medications syringes, medication containers, and solutions used during a procedure applies to procedures done at the bedside.

Adapted from the January issue of Hospital Pharmacy Regulation Report.

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