The Greeley Company, Marblehead, MA Sample medications can be a valuable, and sometimes much needed resource for your patients. In fact, in spite of the value these medications provide, some health care organizations just don't have the resources and capacity to properly maintain these drugs. As a result, they have discontinued the use of sample medications. TX.3-TX.3.9 refer to organized and systematic processes for medication use throughout the hospital. Policies should address how the organization ensures that sample medications are current and appropriately controlled.
Some organizations place the burden of sample control back on the pharmaceutical representative.
The software also facilitates safe disposal and waste of sample medications. TX.3.5 requires that organizations control the preparation and dispensing of medications. This standard also requires that organizations use a standardized method to appropriately and safely label the medications they dispense to both inpatients and outpatients. The current survey emphasis is on medication recall and safe disposition of discontinued and recalled medications. This standard requires the provision for retrieval and safe disposition of discontinued and recalled medications.