Anywhere RN Remote Medication Management 

Crowding at the automated medication dispensing cabinets takes valuable time away from nurses and also limits access for pharmacy.  Nurses often feel rushed at the cabinet if others are waiting for their turn to use it  - which causes stress and can increase the potential for medication errors.

With Anywhere RN, your nurses can request medications and perform other functions remotely, using existing networked hospital computers or mobile medication systems such as Omnicell’s Savvy™, at a time and location that is convenient to them. 

Anywhere RN shortens time at the cabinet and streamlines the process for issuing and returning medications, and recording waste. Anywhere RN improves nurse efficiency by:

• Reducing lines at the cabinet to save time and frustration—and increase nurse satisfaction.
• Saving steps: Nurses remotely request scheduled and PRN medications, which are queued up at the cabinet, ready for quick removal.
• Saving trips: Nurses record medication waste remotely to eliminate trips back to the cabinet.

Customer Highlight
South Jersey Healthcare nursing experience results with Anywhere RN:

• Automated dispensing cabinet medication removal time decreased 33%.¹
• Patient safety increased by 64%.²
• Nurse efficiency increased by 63%.²
• 77% of nurses reported being able to perform a double-check of medications due to additional time freed-up.²
• 83% of nursing staff recommends Anywhere RN.²

¹ Data collection from cabinet log file analysis.
² Data from nursing surveys.

"Anywhere RN dramatically increases the nurses’ ability to access patients' medications in a safer and more efficient manner, allowing our clinicians to focus on patient care."

—Joseph Alessandrini, Vice President, Clinical Service, and Administrative Director of Pharmaceutical Care and Drug Information Services at South Jersey Healthcare

• Nurses have more time to review the patient’s medication orders prior to accessing the cabinet, without concern about inconveniencing other nurses. Nurses can:
• Create their own “My Patient” list of just the patients assigned to them for their shift, adding speed and convenience.
• Remotely review and request the scheduled and PRN medications for a patient, which are then queued up and ready for immediate removal when the nurse signs onto the cabinet.
• Perform medication overrides remotely rather than at the cabinet.
• Find out which cabinet the requested medications are stored in (Medication Availability feature).
• Record medication waste and document witnessing remotely to eliminate trips back to the cabinet.
• Create medication return requests remotely for any unused medications to eliminate trips back to the cabinet.
• Nurses can save steps by greatly reducing the number of trips back and forth to the automated dispensing cabinet during medication passes. 
• When used with Omnicell’s Savvy™ mobile medication system , nurses can retrieve medications for multiple patients in one trip to the cabinet.

For Nursing:

• Increases nurse efficiency and satisfaction by:
• Reducing time spent at the cabinet.
• Preventing frustration from queuing at the cabinet.
• Reducing the number of trips to the cabinet.
• Allowing nurses to spend more time in the patient’s room, which increases both patient and nurse satisfaction.
• Increases patient safety by reducing workflow interruptions.

For Pharmacy:

• Increases efficiency by providing greater access to the cabinet for restocking.

For Hospital Administration:

• Increases nurse productivity by streamlining the medication administration process.
• Increases patient safety by reducing nurse distractions.
• Leverages the hospital’s existing investment in computer access in the patient care area.