[traumanurses] Re: Pharmacy

[Raby Linda <Linda.Raby@HCAHealthcare.com>]

Lisa,

Our House Supervisors have access to the pharmacy during off hours to retrieve needed meds with protocols in place.  We have a pharmacist on-call 24/7 for questions or to come in for emergency medication needs. We are ACS verified Level II.

-Linda Raby

Trauma Program Manager
San Jose Medical Center
office    408.977.4648
fax       408.993.7104
linda.raby@HCAHealthcare.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Leiding, Lisa [mailto:Lisa.Leiding@stvin.org]
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 7:48 AM
To: Trauma Nurse Society (E-mail)
Cc: Lacey, Mike
Subject: [traumanurses] Pharmacy

Hi,

I had an interesting question posed to me today and was wondering what rationales / issues (pro's / cons) that you could share with me regarding the availablity of a 24-hour pharmacist.

ACS says nothing - our state regs say nothing. When you respond can you share the facility level designation / verification that you are.

Thanks
Lisa McLaughlin
St. Vincent Hospital
Santa Fe, NM
505-820-5708