AUDIOCONFERENCE ON TAPE
Sponsored by Drug Diversion in Health Care: A Guide to Identification and Prevention
presented on July 6, 2005
Narcotics theft and use occurs in many hospitals. Addicted healthcare professionals compromise patient care, making it critical for you and your staff to have a working understanding of how to identify and prevent drug theft.
A recent study showed that prescription drug abuse makes up close to 50% of the overall drug problem in America. Prevent drug theft to ensure that your patients have access to the drugs they need. Listen to this 90-minute audioconference, "Drug Diversion in Healthcare: Strategies for Identification and Prevention."
This intermediate-level program, presented by two drug-diversion experts, will help you
- discuss why drug diversion continues to be a problem in healthcare
- identify settings where drug diversion occurs
- solve the drug diversion problem at your facility
- understand the effect of automated dispensing systems on drug theft
- know how to handle perpetrators and abusers
Take a look at our agenda
I. Overview—Why does drug diversion continue to be a problem in healthcare?
- Management perspective
- Law enforcement perspective
II. Settings where drug diversion happens
- Hospital pharmacies
- Anesthesiology
III. Solutions for facilities on how to address the problem
- How to prevent drug diversion in pharmacy and anesthesiology through the following topics:
- Urine screenings and random tests
- Providing adequate staffing
- C2Safe—look for withdrawal symptoms
- Use of systems already in place
IV. The pros and cons of automated dispensing systems for pharmacy and anesthesiology
- Management perspective
- Law enforcement perspective
- Case study on CRNA
V. What do we do with the perpetrators/abusers?
- Recommendations for pharmacies and anesthesiology
VI. Q&A session
Who should listen?
- Safety professionals
- Pharmaceutical directors and other professionals
- Nurse managers
- Security professionals
- Nurses
- Risk management personnel
- Human resources personnel
- Hospital administrators
- All healthcare professionals that provide medication
Meet the speakers
Donald E. Bogardus, MPA, CHPA, CPP, currently serves as the safety/security director for the Banner Health System chain of hospitals. He is a nationally recognized author, lecturer, and authority on the subject of narcotics diversion from hospitals. For more than 20 years, he has conducted drug investigations at hospitals and dealt with dozens of addicted healthcare professionals in crisis.
Mr. Bogardus has lectured and consulted for national and state organizations, including the Drug Enforcement Administration, National Association of Boards of Pharmacists, National Nurses Society on Addiction, and American Society of Health-System Pharmacists.
Dt. Dennis Luken has conducted pharmaceutical drug diversion investigations for over eight years and is currently an investigator with the Warren County Drug Task Force in Warren County, OH. Dt. Luken was also a member of the Cincinnati Police Division for over 25 years and retired in 2001. During the last four and a half years of his career he was assigned to the Pharmaceutical Diversion Squad.
Dt. Luken also owns and operates his own company, Pharmaceutical Diversion Resources, and provides training educating healthcare facilities and its personnel about the pharmaceutical drug diversion problem. Detective Dennis Luken is also the national treasurer for the National Association of Drug Diversion Investigators and has conducted lectures and training to a wide variety of organizations across the country.
About your included materials package
You' will receive a complete package of materials that contains helpful information and a slide presentation. These materials will make this audioconference even more informative and interactive. Make copies and distribute them to all of your peers so that they can listen —and retain this important information for future reference!
Program materials
Program materials will be provided with PDF links.
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