title: Overview of the parenteral nutrition use process.
abstract: Parenteral nutrition (PN) is a high-alert medication that contains dozens of active pharmaceutical ingredients. This complex prescription drug preparation is used in a wide variety of clinical settings for patients across the age spectrum. Despite the existence of a number of guidance documents, the drug-use process for PN suffers from lack of standardization for order prescription, order verification and review, PN compounding, labeling, and dispensing. As a result, PN-associated medication errors would not be unexpected but are documented infrequently.
authors.affiliation: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA. boullata@nursing.upenn.edu
authors.forename: Joseph I
authors.initials: JI
authors.lastname: Boullata
mesh_terms: D004339:Drug Compounding / Q000592:standards; D004348:Drug Labeling / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D008508:Medication Errors; D010288:Parenteral Nutrition / Q000592:standards*; D061214:Patient Safety / Q000592:standards*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D055553:Prescription Drugs / Q000592:standards*; D055656:Prescriptions / Q000592:standards
chemical_list: D055553:Prescription Drugs