Tim Renz and Mona Gamboa of CareRight Technologies, a solution provider at the marcus evans Long-Term Care CXO Summit Spring 2012, on ensuring nurses achieve the five rights of medication administration safety. Interview with: Tim Renz, Chief Executive Officer & Mona Gamboa, Chief Technology Officer, CareRight Technologies

1. Achieving the
Five Rights of
Medication Safety
administration errors in long-term MedRight automatically captures all the
care (LTC) facilities. changes associated with each patient’s
medication profile throughout the day,
How can LTC facilities eliminate including treatments, procedures, and
errors and inaccuracies? other orders. LTC facilities with paper
MARs are not always able to keep track
Tim Renz: Mistakes happen daily in LTC of medication changes efficiently.
facilities that use paper-based MARs.
Nurses are pulled in 20 different
directions as they try to complete their
daily responsibilities. A family member
might ask them a question, a doctor
may call or a resident could need their
help. Then, they struggle to remember Medication
where they left off, and when they sit
down to go through their charts to
document everything at the end of the
administration
day, they forget to make a note of an
important piece of information.
errors
Mona Gamboa: These errors can be
can be
prevented. Technologies such as
MedRight give nurses the tool to achieve prevented
the Five Rights of medication safety:
right patient, drug, dose, route and
time.
Interview with: Tim Renz, Chief How does this program help LTC
Executive Officer & Mona Gamboa, It is simple for nurses to use on facilities be patient centered?
Chief Technology Officer, CareRight different devices, including portable
Technologies devices. The proper administration of Mona Gamboa: The trend is to be
drugs is one of nursing’s primary patient centered, to help people
responsibilities, but they are in the dark transition from one home to another.
Most skilled nursing facilities have not ages without the right tools. LTC facilities are no longer considered
yet switched to electronic medication institutions and “patients” are now
administration record (eMAR) systems, With budget cuts in almost all referred to as “residents” and “people”.
missing out on tools that could help sectors, why should LTC facilities
nurses achieve the five rights of budget for such a technology? The true patient centered facility will
medication safety and give facilities the keep all of the resident’s belongings
ability to capture all charges, according Tim Renz: Not all eMAR systems are right in his room, including medication,
to Tim Renz, Chief Executive Officer, & expensive, and they have proven to in a locked cabinet accessible only by
Mona Gamboa, Chief Technology increase efficiency, safety and save on the nurse. Using the eMAR, residents
Officer, CareRight Technologies. nursing overtime. For example, nurses can take their medications on their time
who utilize our technology do not need and not the institution’s time. True
From a solution provider at the marcus to spend one to two hours after their “Point-of-Care” resident services with
evans Long-Term Care CXO Summit shift documenting their rounds. programs like MedRight® and
Spring 2012, Renz and Gamboa Medication administration is tracked CareRight® are easily achievable
discuss how to eliminate medication automatically throughout their day. throughout the care areas of a facility.

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About CareRight™Technologies
CareRight™ Technologies is dedicated to bringing care providers and caregivers the most innovative clinical software solutions
using the latest technology. MedRight™ is a web-based eMAR, providing comprehensive features centered around facility workflows
and integrated with pharmacy processes. With its patented technology, MedRight allows a med pass even during Internet outages.
For more information: www.carerighttech.com
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