• PN Use Survey Finds Continued Room for Improvement

    PN Use Survey Finds Continued Room for Improvement
    By Karen BlumThe 2025 ASPEN Parenteral Nutrition (PN) Use Survey identified several encouraging trends, including a major shift toward multidisciplinary care, along with a few areas of concern, such as lagging use of standardized order forms that boost patient safety and macronutrient regimens that fall short of treatment guidelines.The quantitative cross-sectional survey of 1,160 clinicians was designed to address multiple steps in the PN use process and updates previous surveys from 2011 and 2
  • Expert Strategies for Surviving IVWMS Downtimes

    Expert Strategies for Surviving IVWMS Downtimes
    By Gina ShawWhen an IV workflow management system (IVWMS) goes down, staff accustomed to relying on it must switch to manual procedures, often under pressure. Those skills can fade without practice, two sterile compounding experts told attendees at NHIA26, in Denver.“Training staff in manual processes is essential, and you need redundancy in place wherever possible, especially for equipment such as ACDs [automated compounding devices] and compounding pumps,” said Glen Gard, CPhT-Adv, CSPT, a

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