IMPROVING PHARMACEUTICAL STORAGE MANAGEMENT IN THE OPERATING AND ANESTHESIA UNIT OF THE KÄTILÖOPISTO MATERNITY HOSPITAL
Korkiainen, Stanislav (2017)
Korkiainen, Stanislav
Metropolia Ammattikorkeakoulu
2017
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2017111116922
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2017111116922
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As the Finnish society struggles under the weight of the cost of the social and health care sector, changes, both big and small, must be made to ensure an equal opportunity for everyone to utilize social and health care services in the future. By taking a concrete step towards cost reduction and efficiency in the pharmaceutical storage management of the Operating and Anesthesia Unit of the Kätilöopisto Maternity Hospital, I will do my small part to help achieve this goal.
The thesis utilizes action research to study the pharmaceutical storage management of the Operating and Anesthesia unit of the Kätilöopisto Maternity Hospital. The study began in the autumn of 2015 with a six-month observation period, where the amount of pharmaceuticals expired in the medicine cabinets was catalogued and the processes of the pharmaceutical storage management were evaluated. During the spring and summer of 2016 the project continued by creating and implementing the improvements to existing processes based on the literature and the results of the first stage of the study.
The result of the thesis was that the pharmaceutical selection was revised and adjustments were made. Also, the pharmaceutical storage management was improved by changing it into a fixed location system utilizing family grouping and special considerations with a clear network of location addresses and SKU identifiers. But there is a limit to how much savings can be achieved this way and the next step, like in many other fields, is digitalization.
The thesis utilizes action research to study the pharmaceutical storage management of the Operating and Anesthesia unit of the Kätilöopisto Maternity Hospital. The study began in the autumn of 2015 with a six-month observation period, where the amount of pharmaceuticals expired in the medicine cabinets was catalogued and the processes of the pharmaceutical storage management were evaluated. During the spring and summer of 2016 the project continued by creating and implementing the improvements to existing processes based on the literature and the results of the first stage of the study.
The result of the thesis was that the pharmaceutical selection was revised and adjustments were made. Also, the pharmaceutical storage management was improved by changing it into a fixed location system utilizing family grouping and special considerations with a clear network of location addresses and SKU identifiers. But there is a limit to how much savings can be achieved this way and the next step, like in many other fields, is digitalization.