ETMC Crockett Pharmacy Technicians Dana Easterling, CPhT, and
Ashley Willis, CPhT, have been hard at work upgrading the seven
Pyxis stations--automated dispensing machines where medicines are
stored in patient care areas--throughout the hospital.
The new Pyxis 4000 system, installed by Care Fusion of Dallas,
included installations and software upgrades to machines
located at nursing station 2, nursing station 4, the surgery
department, labor and delivery, intensive care and the emergency
department. In addition, a new station was added in day
surgery.
The upgrade from Pyxis 3500 to Pyxis 4000 will provide nurses
and medical professionals, who have access to the medicine
distribution stations, improvements including bio-scanner, a
fingerprint identification process; global find capabilities to
help locate a specific medicine within the hospitals stations;
newer and faster software; a new console and in the future, a bar
code scanner.
ETMC Crockett nurses will have access to the Pyxis System and
patient medicines through their individual fingerprint.
The Pyxis 4000 is capable of a larger inventory of various types
of medicine, and with the additional access features, there are
fewer possibilities for errors to occur in the distribution of
medication.
"ETMC Crockett is among the first in the ETMC system to receive
the Pyxis 4000 upgrade," said ETMC Crockett Administrator Terry
Cutler. "ETMC continues to provide the community the latest in
technology to ensure that patients who visit our facility receive
the finest medical care possible."