Medication reconciliation with our pharmacy is a JOKE. It is required for the nurses jobs, but they can't staff properly. Always behind making patients mad, they don't answer call back.....even though they say their call back rate is high. False. Whoever is leading this plan, department, scheduling, needs to be reassigned. What he/she is doing is not working. Higher ups look into this!
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I would like to do my own.
Because we are not as knowledgeable about medications as a pharmacist. They know the interactions between medications much better than I do. They are a doctor of pharmacy. Their input has been very valuable to many of my members and has prevented readmissions due to meds issues.
I hear and see nurses saying they don’t have enough work, so why aren’t these nurses doing the medication reconciliations?
In the meantime, we are calling people back well beyond their discharge day, when it is crucial to find these said errors.
Pharmacy is hiring or trying to. The predicted # of med recs fell short of the actual volume. Nurses will not be doing med recs as it has been proven the benefit of them (reduced readmissions) comes from a pharmacist doing them. It will improve as more pharmacists are hired.
Funny that it was working just fine when we had high call volumes. Think they are going to make it so nurses complete med recs. This will be a large disservice to members. Not sure that matters though.