CHS Pharmacy News
December 2021
Upcoming Holiday Hours
Christmas Eve: 9 AM – 3 PM
Christmas Day: Closed
New Year’s Eve: Normal Business Hours
New Year’s Day: Closed
Normal business hours are 9 AM – 5:30 PM M-F, and 9 AM – 3PM Saturday and Closed on Sunday
*Emergency services available 24/7/365
December 5th – 11th: National Influenza Vaccination Week*
The best way to reduce your risk from seasonal flu and its potentially serious complications is to get vaccinated every year.
- Everyone 6 months of age and older should get an influenza (flu) vaccine every season with rare exception
- For those aged 65 years or older, it is recommended to get the quadrivalent influenza vaccines that contains adjuvant or is the high-dose
- All vaccines for the 2021-2022 influenza season contain a quadrivalent base make-up
SAFETY: Nebulizer Use**
Important points when using nebulizer devices:
- Wash your hands well
- Connect the hose to an air compressor
- Fill the medicine cup with the medication
- To avoid spills, close the medicine cup tightly and always hold the mouthpiece straight up and down
- Attach the hose and mouthpiece to the medicine cup
- Place the mouthpiece in the mouth. Keep the lips firm around the mouthpiece so that all of the medicine goes into the lungs
- A mask may be used to deliver medication
- Breathe through the mouth until all the medicine is used. This takes 10 to 15 minutes
- If needed, use a nebulizer mask if unable to breathe only through the mouth
- Turn off the machine when done
- Wash the medicine cup and mouthpiece or mask as directed by facility and machine recommendations policy
CMS Appendix PP: In the Know***
F441: Infection Control
The facility must establish and maintain an Infection Control Program designed to provide a safe, sanitary, and comfortable environment and to help prevent the development and transmission of disease and infection.
The intent of this regulation is to assure that the facility develops, implements, and maintains an
Infection Prevention and Control Program to prevent, recognize, and control, to the fullest extent possible, the onset and spread of infection within the facility.
An effective infection prevention and control program incorporates policies, procedures, and practices which promote consistent adherence to evidence-based infection control practices
12p -1p CST; 1-hour CE Programs for Administrators & Nursing
Presented by National Institute for Health Education & Training; Contact CHS Pharmacy to find out more.
- December 1: Growing Occupancy in the Post-COVID World
How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?
- *cdc.gov
- **medlineplus.gov
- ***KDADs, Appendix PP, page 330