Lesson 4: Management of Medication (MOM)

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This chapter provides standards, policies and procedures that guide the availability, safe storage, prescription, dispensing and administration of medications. The standards guide pharmacy for audit medication processes. A healthcare facility should have a mechanism to ensure that emergency medications are standardized throughout the organization, readily available and replenished in a timely manner. The guidelines focus on a strict monitoring mechanism to ensure that the required medications are always stocked and well within expiry dates.

The standards also have strict protocols for high-risk medications which should be verified by an appropriate person to ensure accuracy of doses, frequency and routes of administration. 

At the end of the lesson you will be able to understand the standards for:

  1. Pharmacy services and usage of medications
  2. Hospital formulary
  3. Storage of medications
  4. Safe and rational prescription of medications
  5. Safe dispensing of medications
  6. Medication administration
  7. Patient’s monitoring after medication administration
  8. Reporting of near misses, medication errors and adverse drug events 
  9. Use of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances
  10. Use of chemotherapeutic agents
  11. Use of radioactive drugs
  12. Use of implantable prosthesis and medical devices
  13. Use of medical supplies and consumables

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