Comment 346 |
Tackling MRSA — let's put more focus on spread 346
By Iolo Davies, PhD, MRPharmS
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News 349-350 |
News summary 349-350
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-Framework for independent prescribing
published by NPC
-Hospitals fail to comply with NICE nutrition guidelines
-Life-long Learning
series winners are announced
-Large-scale study of ADEs in US reported
-Performance ratings out for English trusts |
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Special feature: Nutrition
in hospital 353-366 |
Life-long learning
Undernutrition in hospital — causes and consequences 353-358
Malnutrition refers to both undernutrition and obesity.
Pharmacists should be aware of the high incidence of undernutrition in hospital
patients and how they can contribute to detecting this problem. This article
describes the relationship between undernutrition and medicines
Hospital Pharmacist 2006;13:353-358
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Peri-operative medication
Peri-operative nutrition — the role of the pharmacist 361-364
This article, the second in a special feature on nutrition
in hospital, describes the nutritional issues that pharmacists need to consider
in surgical patients. Potential interactions between
nutrients in enteral feeds and drugs are also discussed
Hospital Pharmacist 2006;13:361-364
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Hospital food policies — progress and improvements 365-366
In 2001 the “Better hospital food” project
was launched in England. Although progress has been made, recent reports suggest
that there is a still a long way to go. This article, the third in a special
feature, describes English, UK and European initiatives to improve the standard
of hospital food
Hospital Pharmacist 2006;13:365-366
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Careers 367-368 |
Careers
Implementing and updating a learning needs analysis toolkit 367-368
By Angharad Hughes, MSc, RGN
Learning needs analysis seeks to balance the preferences
of staff with the skill needs of their department and trust. This article describes
the updating and implementing of a previously-developed tool kit
Hospital Pharmacist 2006;13:367-368
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Meetings 371 |
Safer Patients Initiative
Why are we not teaching health care professionals about human error? 371
Learning lessons from how things are done in the aviation
industry was a key theme of a patient safety conference held in Luton. Rachel
Graham reports
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Papers 372-378 |
Validation of cold storage shelves in an automated dispensing system 372-374
By Anne Black, MRPharmS, Steven Brice, MRPharmS, Loraine Hardy,and
Rod Longshaw, MRPharmS
OBJECTIVE — To establish whether the cold storage
shelves of a ROWA Speedcase tandem system consistently provide a suitable storage
area for
pharmaceuticals that need to be stored at a temperature between 2 and 8C. To
determine whether the LCD display provides an accurate and reliable indication
of the temperature achieved. To establish whether heat generated by the system
(including automatic loaders) effects the ambient temperature in the areas where
drugs are being stored
Hospital Pharmacist 2006;13:372-374
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Evaluation of automatic loading devices with a ROWA Speedcase system 375-378
By Steven Brice, MRPharmS, Loraine Hardy and Rod Longshaw, MRPharmS
OBJECTIVE — To establish whether the use of
automatic loaders on a ROWA automated dispensing system affects the time taken
to store and dispense items and to examine ways of maximising any time savings
achieved
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Focus on technicians 379-380 |
Focus on technicians
Use technicians to train nurses to help manage discharge medicines 379-380
By Tanya Cameron
With the development of their roles comes the need
for pharmacy technicians to find more efficient ways of working. This article
looks at a scheme where technicians train nurses to deal with discharge medicines
Hospital Pharmacist 2006;13:379-380
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Life-long learning 381-382 |
Life-long learning
QUESTIONS: Nutrition in hospital 381-382
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ANSWERS: Acromegaly 381
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