Impaired Clinician

Clinicians shoulder a burden most of their fellow citizens do not—easy access to controlled substances. As many as 9% of clinicians with access to controlled substances are—in the discreet language of the professional—“impaired.”

When a clinician in your organization resorts to diversion, they place the patient population at great risk. That risk, once discovered, may land your organization in court where the costs of litigation will further diminish your ability to provide quality health care. There are no winners in this scenario.

ASHP’s Guidelines on Surgery and Anesthesiology Pharmaceutical Services, recommends “Qualitative testing of returned controlled substances.”

The ValiMed Impaired Clinician Solution provides fast, easy, accurate and discreet validation of controlled substances in any pharmacy location. The solution is designed to validate returned controlled substance waste from both the OR satellite and the patient care areas.

Most institutions rely on QUANTITATIVE accounting in order to identify diversion/dilution problems, but how do you know what’s really in the returned syringe?

ValiMed provides rapid QUALITATIVE analysis of returned narcotics (including Fentanyl) prior to disposal.

You can easily generate reports to focus on any number of user-defined fields allowing you to document your tracking and disposal procedures.

ValiMed can help identify problem areas before they become crises while meeting regulatory guidelines for the accounting of controlled substances.