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Victorian Quality Use of Medicines Network (VQUMN)
Page contents: 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004
The Victorian Quality Use of Medicines Network is a moderated email discussion group for health professionals with an interest in quality use of medicines (QUM). Members share information through an email discussion forum. Participants can raise issues for discussion, request information and seek the opinions and advice of colleagues through this forum. The topics raised by members are circulated to all participants who reply via the moderator. At the end of the discussion responses are collated and sent out as a report to all members.
To become a member please register your interest.
The QUM discussion topics covered include:
2007
- Sign-off for telephone orders
- Dose admin aids for weekend discharge
- Vancomycin dosage
- Image record management systems
- Medication issues on discharge to ACFs
- Ancillary pain charts
- Iodine 1:70 and theatre fire risk (request from NSW TAG)
- PCA policy/procedure (request from NSW TAG)
- Postasium apoules in wards (request from NSW TAG)
- Nurse initiated drug policies
- Abelcet usage in hospitals
- Peri-operative pharmacist role
- Streptokinase usage
- Reporting medication error
- Medication administration & enrolled nurses
- Inpatient insulin prescribing
- Oxycontin-MScontin near-misses and remedies
- Nicotine withdrawal management in inpatients
- Data on missed doses
- Enoxaparin reversal
- S8 drugs and presentation at the emergency department
- Insulin errors
- IV infusions in the ward setting
2006
- Perioperative use of parecoxib
- IV paracetamol
- HITH anticoagulation
- Pharmacist history taking
- Division 2 nurse medication administration practice
- Red and green bags
- Ranitidine or proton pump inhibitors for stress ulcer prophylaxis
- Parenteral medication check by two nurses
- Barcode scanners
- Intravenous iron standing orders
- Anticoagulant guidelines
- Enrolled nurses administering intravenous medications
- Enoxaparin and other low molecular weight heparins
- Enoxaparin dosing in obesity
- NIMC - use in specific patient populations
- NovoSeven
- Hyperkalaemia
- NIMC - variable dose insulin prescribing
- NIMC - VTE prophylaxis
- e-learning packages
- Self-medication
2005
- Patients preventing medication errors
- Administration of oral contrast media
- IV lines post anaesthetic
- Medication chart prescribing policy
- Heparin infusions
- Iron infusions
- Epidural infusions
- Management of anaphylaxis
- Hypertonic saline
- Adverse Drug Reaction recording
- Removal of potassium ampoules from wards and introduction of pre-mix solutions
- Preparation of intravenous infusions during cardiac surgery
- Drug trolleys versus bedside lockers
- Anaphylaxis, adrenaline and noradrenaline protocols
- Endorsement of administration times on medication charts
- Cardioplegia solutions
2004
- Medicines Safety Week
- Missed doses
- Recording near misses
- Security of narcotic infusions
- Drug administration in Operating Theatres
- KPIs for medication safety
- Medication administration to psychiatric patients
- Vincristine alerts and policies
- Telephone orders
- Resuscitation kits/carts
- Medication chart audit
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