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Medication Disposal. Policy: Medication disposal should follow federal and state laws for all prescription, controlled, and over-the-counter. medications. Practice: Medications that are no longer needed by the client, have been discontinued, and are unable to be returned. to the pharmacy should be disposed of according to applicable laws and guidelines.
The âat homeâ drugs will be checked with whatever medications the patient is prescribed in the hospital to make sure the medications can be taken safely together. Called âmedication reconciliation,â this process should occur every time a patient is admitted into the hospital. Of the 879 medication error reports submitted about patients taking their own medications from home while in the hospital, 77.7% of the events reached the patient and 2.1% of the events resulted in patient harm.