Healthcare drug diversion programs are often faced with an interesting obstacle: maintaining a balance between accepting accountability and recognizing risk. Due to DEA registration, the organization must accept that significant accountability rests within the pharmacy department. On the other hand, a large portion of the risk exists in the nursing department. By its very nature of patient care, this stage in the medication management process contains an elevated level of vulnerability. As a result, the question remains for many healthcare systems: how does an organization build a program that enables the pharmacy to stay accountable while simultaneously creating a culture that doesn’t make nursing feel targeted? The answer rests in the spirit of the approach, keeping healing as the primary goal. Read More >
