Drug diversion: Regulatory requirements and best practices
Hospital Safety Insider, December 29, 2016
Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to Hospital Safety Insider!
Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from the new HCPro book, Drug Diversion in Healthcare, by author Kimberly New, BSN, JD, a consultant to healthcare institutions on the subject of drug security and diversion. The book will look at the serious issue of drug diversion in U.S. hospitals and provide a comprehensive guide for safety professionals looking to create and maintain a diversion program in their facility.
In many cases, the expectations of regulatory and accreditation authorities are not explicit in regulations, but come to light in the agreements reached, for example, between the DEA and facilities that make settlements for violations or poor practices. In general, the expectation of DEA and other authorities is that facilities adhere to the best available practices for patient safety and drug security, whether or not those practices are spelled out in published regulations. Consequently, there is no real distinction in terms of DEA expectations between what is required and what is considered best practice. The technology and understanding for dealing with drug diversion is evolving more quickly than regulations can be rewritten, and regulatory agencies expect facilities to keep abreast of the best practices available.
Continue reading here.
Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to Hospital Safety Insider!
Related Products
-
Hospital Safety Center
Improve compliance with hospital safety standards from The Joint Commission, OSHA, and other regulators with this...
-
Healthcare Life Safety Compliance
Created exclusively for healthcare facility managers, plant operations professionals, and directors of engineering, this...
-
Hospital Safety Insider
Stay on top of hospital safety requirements and best practices with our free, fast-paced weekly update.
-
Basic OSHA Compliance Manual Kit
Total compliance has never been easier. This one convenient package contains everything you need to ensure your outpatient...
-
Basic Dental OSHA Compliance Manual Kit
Total compliance has never been easier. This one convenient package contains everything you need to ensure your dental...
Most Popular
- Articles
-
- Math can be tricky: TJC corrects ABHR storage requirement
- Air control equals infection control
- Don't forget the three checks in medication administration
- Note similarities and differences between HCPCS, CPT® codes
- Residency coordinators’ responsibilities
- The consequences of an incomplete medical record
- Practice the six rights of medication administration
- Study: Shorter shifts reduces residents’ attentional failures
- OB services: Coding inside and outside of the package
- Five ways to safeguard your patients' valuables
- E-mailed
-
- OSHA HazCom updates include labeling, SDS requirements
- Air control equals infection control
- Q&A: Are colleges sending students to our facility for rotations business associates?
- Patient classification systems to coordinate patient care
- Nursing's growing role
- Note similarities and differences between HCPCS, CPT® codes
- Note from the instructor: CMS clarifies billing guidelines on proper billing for drugs in a single-dose or single-use vial, including billing for discarded drugs
- Fracture coding in ICD-10-CM requires greater specificity
- Five ways to safeguard your patients' valuables
- Differentiate between types of wound debridement
- Searched