Virginia Health System Reduces PACU Medication Overrides

Originally published by our sister publication Specialty Pharmacy ContinuumBy Karen BlumThe PACU of a hospital 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 autom