LIMIT PATIENT ARMBAND SCAN TO EXCLUDE PATIENT LABELS

During medication administration nurses should be scanning the patient wristband for Med Verify. Currently, scanning patient labels is allowed which enables a nurse to scan the patient name and then medications before they ever reach the patient bedside. This defeats the whole point of barcode scanning medications and is a potential patient safety issue. The risk to patients can be minimized by altering the wristband so the scanner is able to differentiate a barcode on the wristband vs one on a patient label.