Labeling meds an issue outside the operating room
Accreditation Connection, July 30, 2007
After the largest decline in compliance of any NPSG from 2006 to the first quarter of 2007, the question has to be asked: "What are hospitals doing wrong regarding NPSG #3D?" The drop from 91.1% compliance of labeling medication and solution containers in 2006 to 84.8% in January-March 2007 could mean that surveyors were looking more closely at this goal, but more likely it was due to confusion about the settings to which the goal applied.
The confusion arose because the early renditions of the goal mentioned only perioperative settings. But the FAQs released earlier this year point out that this goal really applies to all settings in which procedures take place and medications and solutions are drawn, according to John Rosing, MHA, FACHE, practice director of accreditation and regulatory services for TGC.
The questions about what settings NPSG #3D applied to led other hospital settings to be a little slow to adapt, especially because labeling is not as common in many of the other settings to which it applies.
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