Consuming Medication That Dropped On The Floor

The medication in question happened to be sovaldi a medication for hepatitis c which costs around 1 000 per pill.

Consuming medication that dropped on the floor. She told me she needed me to count another 120. If i drop one i just pick it up and take it without really thinking about it though. May 2014 page 4 of 30 assisting clients with medication medicines are defined as chemical substances which are designed to have a therapeutic effect on the body. The other day my pharmacist dropped a vial with an easy open cap that i had just counted and spilled 120 pills on the ground.

He and his team dropped slices of bologna and bread onto floors contaminated with salmonella let them sit for varying amounts of time and recorded exactly how many bugs moved from floor to food. I have 2 cats. Rather than being annoyed that i had to count another 120 i was more curious about what she was going to do with the medication she just spilled. It s not that clean but not filthy either.

While doing so one of them accidentally tipped over the bottle and 12 of the pills fell to the floor. There is no way to disinfect a pill that fell on a dirty floor and you cannot microwave or bake it for a few minutes to kill the germs. I googled this and there was a post from pharmacists who said that this happens all the. I keep my floors clean because my 18 month old eats off them any chance he gets.

I was getting my medicine out of my car and dropped half the bottle on my garage floor. Assisting clients with medication workbook doc phm2006wbk 10 version 5 issued. Consuming food dropped on the floor still carries an infection risk as it very much depends on which bacteria are present on the floor at the time. My thoughts are that if i can live in this house and breathe in those germs all the time it would probably be safe to eat something that i drop.

Because the drug was so expensive the facility required that it be treated as a controlled substance and pills were counted daily. I am wondering whether i should throw them all away. Since the pills came in contact with the floor the nurses believed they should be discarded. Assuming i were at home if it landed on the main part of the floor which is clean i would just pick it up check to make sure it s clean maybe wipe it in a towel to dust it off and then take it.

Anyway i picked some up and threw some away. While administering the medication to an inmate one of the nurses accidentally tipped over the bottle of sovaldi and spilled 12 pills on the floor.