The event started with opening speech by Life Sciences and Biomedical Engineering ARC consultant Asst. Prof. Dr. Serap YESILKIR BAYDAR, and Nursing Club consultant Asst. Prof. Dr. Funda KARAMAN and continued with the speech of our student Mahsum SIGINC, the president of Nursing Club.
SIGINC, who is a 3rd year student at Istanbul Gelisim University (IGU) Nursing Department, said: “I have been conducting Presidency of our Nursing Club for 2 years, under the consultancy of our lecturer Asst. Prof. Dr. Funda KARAMAN.” He gave brief information about the activities of the club and he completed his speech by wishing it to be a nice presentation.
Pharmacist Fusun KOLAT, working as the Operations and Marketing Manager at Invotek Health Technologies; started the presentation by transferring her experiences on educational knowledge, pharmacy and drug preparation systems. In her presentation, KOLAT gave detailed information about "Traditional Drug Management Approach", "New Generation Drug Management Approaches", "Effects on Patients" and "Effects on Occupation Groups", "Stock Management Processes" and "Clinical Processes".
After diversifying the preparation of drugs as "IV Drug Preparation", "Chemotherapy Preparation", "TPN Preparation" and "Oral Tablet Reconstitution", KOLAT stated that the drugs previously prepared in service environments are now prepared in Central Units and gave detailed information about their importance.
KOLAT stated "Medication errors have enormous consequences that can lead to the death of the patient, as well as bringing cost-related problems” and continued her presentation by giving information about human medication errors and the cost of errors and the studies.
After mentioning the changing processes with “New Generation Pharmaceutical Management Approaches”, KOLAT emphasized the importance of the agreement between physician-nurse-pharmacist. KOLAT continued the presentation with examples of new technologies; she shared the situation in our country and in the world regarding the Central Medicine Preparation and Packaging Unit, Medicine Preparation Robots and Devices, Medicine Transfer Robots, Automatic Cabinets and Bedside Verification.
Besides mentioning the effects of Medication Management Systems on patient gains and occupational groups, KOLAT answered the questions from participants and the event ended.
