PACU Medication Overrides Plummet After ADC Optimization

By Karen BlumClare Livingston, PharmDA hospital PACU has a high patient turnover rate, high clinical acuity, and fast pace of care, said Clare Livingston, PharmD, an informatics system pharmacist specialist with Inova Health System, a five-hospital system in Northern Virginia. So, when Dr. Livingston and her colleagues noted that medication errors in the PACU at one of their hospitals were often tied to nurses overriding orders from automated dispensing cabinets (ADCs), they decided to take acti