Medication Management and Use Committee

Medication management is an important part of the symptomatic, preventive, curative and palliative treatment and management of diseases and ailments. The committee's areas of work are the design and monitoring of the processes related to the selection, procurement and storage of medications to be used in our institution, medication ordering, preparation, distribution and administration of medications, and recording of administration. In this context, the committee carries out the following activities;

• - Ensuring that medications to be ordered are kept ready in stock, and that a procurement process is determined for those that are not available,
• - Developing and implementing a program based on the principle of antibiotic stewardship for the prudent use of antibiotics,
• - Ensuring that medications are stored appropriately and safely and can be easily obtained 24 hours a day,
• - Ensuring that emergency medications are stored and managed in a standard way,
• - Protecting medications against loss and theft throughout the hospital,
• - Planning a medication recall system when needed,
• - Standardizing the medication ordering process, ensuring the training and compliance of all staff and ensuring that the order is recorded in the patient file,
• - Determining the management process for medications the patient is taking on a continuing basis,
• - Ensuring that the appropriateness of medication orders is evaluated by qualified persons and that every dose administered is recorded,
• - Ensuring that medications are prepared and distributed in a safe and clean environment,
• - Ensuring that a system is developed and implemented so that medications are administered at the right dose, to the right patient, at the right time,
• - Ensuring that the effects of medications on patients are monitored and that processes for reporting errors are designed and implemented,
• - Carrying out a risk assessment of medications brought to the hospital by the patient/patient relatives and, within this scope, creating and implementing a process that guides the management, use and documentation of the patient's medications,
• - Monitoring and recording adverse effects of medications on patients.