Prescription for Success: An Initiative to Increase Safe Disposal of Narcotics at Home

Discussion Implementation of a standardized educational practice for the families of patients being discharged with narcotic medication resulted in an increased awareness of safe disposal of narcotics and an increase in dispensing of activated-carbon-based deactivation kits. Ultimately, this resulted in the families having a greater confidence in caring for their children at discharge as reported on patient satisfaction surveys.
Source: Journal of Pediatric Surgical Nursing - Category: Nursing Tags: Quality Improvement Source Type: research