Hualien Tzu Chi Hospital introduced the first "automatic injection packaging machine" in East Taiwan in September this year

The first-line pharmacist of the hospital should not only implement three readings and five pairs, confirm the content of the prescription and carry out the evaluation of the appropriateness of the prescription before administration, but also focus on the implementation in the busy and minute by minute medical process, so as to ensure the correctness of administration. Therefore, Tzu Chi Hospital in Hualien introduced the first "automatic injection packaging machine" in East Taiwan in September this year to provide single dose packaging of injection drugs for inpatients. Due to the demand for accurate and real-time application of drugs, the drug safety has been upgraded.

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The "automatic injection packaging machine" provides single dose packaging for inpatient injection. Due to the demand of accurate and real-time application of drugs, the drug safety is upgraded.

Tzu Chi Hospital in Hualien has actively introduced the assistance of intelligent systems and scientific and technological tools to move towards the goal of zero adjustment. Liu Caiyan, director of the Pharmaceutical Department of Hualien Tzu Chi Hospital, said that in the past, the injection items of many inpatients were manually prepared into a total package. There was no single packaging bar code, and the nursing staff could not scan the bar code for administration during administration. In particular, when inpatients temporarily needed injection medication, they could not quickly and correctly read the patient's medication information under the pressure of time constraints.

After the upgrading of the medical system with imported technology, Liu Caiyan said that the "automatic injection packaging machine" automatically packages a single dose of injection after receiving the prescription from the computer doctor's order end. After review by the pharmacist, it can be sent to the nursing station of the whole hospital with the drug truck. In addition, the oral tablet packaging machine previously used in the hospital can better ensure the drug safety of inpatients.

Liu Caiyan said that although the "full-automatic injection packaging machine" can not completely replace the pharmacist's dispensing operation at present, as long as the operation process is followed and the tonic is not wrong, there will be no dispensing negligence in the operation of the drug truck, and it can accommodate 72 kinds of injection drugs. It can pack a meal package every minute, which not only saves the pharmacist's dispensing workload, It can also greatly reduce the risk of medication errors by pharmacists and nursing staff, and allow pharmacists to spend their time on professional pharmaceutical services such as evaluation of prescriptions and medication guidance.

The "automatic injection packaging machine" provides a single dose meal package for injection for inpatients in the hospital, which further shortens the preparation and administration time of clinical nurses and creates warm and sensitive medical services.

The drug distribution process in the medical hospital includes doctors prescribing drugs, pharmacists reviewing, and finally nurses giving drugs according to doctors' orders. Li Yanzheng, the supervisor of the nursing department, said that in order to reduce the dispensing negligence of injectable drugs, there is now a "full-automatic injection packaging machine". Pharmacists find out the methods to improve from the test stage, and formulate the SOP of the operation process, so as to standardize and correct the whole operation process, provide a single dose meal package for injectable patients in the hospital, and shorten the preparation and administration time of clinical nurses, Create warm and meaningful medical services.

(author / Peng Weiyun, photographer / provided by Peng Weiyun and the nursing department of Hualien Tzu Chi Hospital)