This document discusses safe medication use and health accessories. It defines medication errors and lists common types. Factors contributing to errors include a lack of pharmacists and inadequate drug storage. Corrective measures include hiring pharmacists, improving policies, and ensuring proper drug labeling and storage. The role of pharmacists is to work with patients, doctors, and nurses. The document also describes various health accessories used in hospitals like beds, wheelchairs, walkers, and medical devices to measure things like blood pressure and glucose levels.

2. SAFE USE OF MEDICATION
HEALTH ACCESSORIES
PRESENTED BY :
DR QURESHI JALIB

4. MEDICATION ERROR
• Administration of wrong medication or dose
of medication drug diagnostic agent , chemical
or treatment requiring the use of such agent
to the wrong patient at wrong time or failure
to administer such agent at specific time or in
manner prescribed.

5. TYPES OF MEDICATION ERROR
• Omission error
• Wrong dosage
• Extra dose
• Unordered dose
• Wrong dosage form
• Wrong time
• Wrong administration

7. FACTORS CONTRIBUTING
Lack of hospital pharmacist
Use of non-professional in area which may
require professional judgment
Inadequate labeling of drug and chemical
packages for nursing station
Inadequate drug station on pavilion
Inadequate policies governing reporting of
incidences.

8. CORRECTIVE MEASURES
1) Sharing of pharmacist
2) Combine responsibilities
3) Purchase of services
4) Consultant pharmacist

9. • Order
• Weigh , measure
• Mixing
• Calculation
• Affixing
• information

10. Policies by director of pharmacy services.
Polices should be recorded in job description.
Insection in procedure manual.

11. • Red ink white background ______ poison
• Blue ink on white background_____ oral non
poisonous medication.
• Green ink _____ topical products
• Black ink ______ nasal preparation
• Purple ink ________ ophthalmic products
• Label must be neat ,easy to read ,
comprehensive and factual.

14. Separate room for storage and
Preparation.
WAGNER:-
Quiet
Clear
Glazed
Large sized

15. MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
• Shallow or stepped shelves.
• Double lock safe with red warning light for
narcotics.
• Counter having drawer for storage of syringes.
• A large sink.
• Refrigerator for drug storage.

16. In small hospitals
Work top counter
Medicine cup dispenser
Sink
Medicine shelves
Narcotic cabinet
Refrigerator
Light
Syringe drawer
Waste basket

17. • Board of trusties of American Hospital
Association (may 13,1953).
• To urge hospital to establish incident reporting
system . To urge adaptation of incident report
for use in coordination with incident report
system.

18. Information included in medication error report
form:
• Patient name
• Hospital name
• Date of error
• Strength of medication
• Route of administration
• Time of error
• Name of person responsible for error
• Type of error
• Name of doctor

19. JOINT COMMISSION ON
PRESCRIPTION DRUG USE
• Nov , 1976 Edward announced formation of
JCPDU.
• A mean by which info on epidemiology of
prescription drug may use in US can be
determined and distributed to interested
particles.
• To describe post marketing surveillance system
that could be use to detect , describe and
quantitate anticipated and unanticipated defect
of marketed drug.

20. AIMS
• Obtain and coordinate information.
• Initiate research.
• To report the information.
• To provide training opportunities.
• As drug info centre.

21. ROLE OF PHARMACIST

25. Pharmacists works with the patients, doctors, nurses and the
public.

27. • A comprehensive health accessories
department in a hospital may include a wide
variety of surgical supplies and convalescent
aids.

28. • Many pharmacies specialize in home health
are equipments such as traction devices ,
blood glucose monitors ,respiratory therapy
equipments , blood pressure monitor devices ,
nerve and muscle stimulators , apnoea
monitors and rehabilitation equipment.

29. • Many health accessories are used by an
hospital they include hospital beds , bed pans,
wheel chairs , walkers etc.

30. FIRST AID SUPPLIES
• These are usually kept ready in many places of
the hospital in emergency , OPD and vehicles
for transporting the patient .
• These are absorbent cotton , bandages ,
dettol , spirit , gloves , tincture iodine scissors.

31. HOSPITAL BEDS
• These are not ordinary beds but with special
features according to the need of patient and
treatment .
Parts
• It is provided with:-
• Side railings
• Saline stands
• Hydraulic pulley
• Over head trapeze bar

33. BED PAN
• It is used for urinating or discharging fecal
matters while in bed.
• Made of metal , glass or plastic.

34. WHEEL CHAIRS
• Chair is wheeled , mobility device in which user
sits.
• Used by people for whom walking is difficult or
impossible.
• Basic standard manual wheel chair incorporates.
 a seat and back.
 two small front wheels.
 two large wheels one on each side.
 a foot rest.

36. CANES
• A walking cane serves two important
functions
• Weight transfer
• Balance

37. WALKERS
• A walker is a tool for disabled or elderly
people who need stability by walking.
• Walkers can be available with or with out
wheels.
• Wheeled walkers available these days are
called rollators.

39. CRUTCHES
• Medical devices used when a patient is injured
or disabled.
• Consist of support that provides a patient
with extra stability.
• Types
• There are several types of medical crutches.
• Fore arm crutches
• Under arm crutches

41. STRUTTERS
• Comprising of large soles that remain flat on
the ground while walking . They make walking
easy.

42. KNEE SUPPORT
These are helpful for patient whose injury is
beneath the knee.
This technique makes the patient to use one or
both hand freely to carry the objects.

43. COMMODES
• When ever the patient is unable to move from
the bed to bathroom a commode is required.
• It is like a portable toilet.
• Commodes are useful if the patient is weak or
unsteady.

44. CERVICAL COLLOR
• It is an orthopedic accessory use to support
patient spinal cord and head.
• Used in neck strains or sprains.

45. THERMOMETERS
• Medical thermometers are use for measuring
human body temp.
Types
• Oral thermometer
• Axiliary thermometer
• Rectal thermometer
• Ear and fore head thermometers

47. SPHYGMOMANOMETER
• Arterial blood pressure is most commonly
measure with a sphygmomanometer .

48. GLUCOMETER
• It is a medical tool for estimating the conc. Of
glucose in blood.
• Useful medical tool for diabetic patients at
home. little drop of blood collected by prickinf
• g the skin is placed on disposable pricking
skin.
• Digital display panel shows glucose level in
mg/dl or mmol/L.