FOLATE vs MULTIVITAMIN

Credit goes to author on linked site, but stumbled across this mnemonic for remembering B vitamins: “These ribs need paprika. Pile it on boy. Faster, come!” These: Thiamine = B1 Ribs: Riboflavin = B2 Need: Niacin = B3 Paprika: Pantothenic acid = B5 Pyle: Pyridoxine = B6 Boy: Biotin = B7 Faster: Fola

There’s an office near me that often sends over prenatals with names that our eRx system doesn’t recognize as being linked to any particular brand or generic, and finding the appropriate prenatal often proves difficult. For example, this is one we received the other day: > prenatal vitamin no.7-i

So I get the question a fair amount of can a banana bag (MVI, thiamine, folate, mag) be run in with other continuous drips like octreotide, Precedex, etc. I never find stability studies for these drugs at a y-site with the stuff in the banana bag. Is there more to this though? Are there certain item

Hello all! I work at a clinic that helps manage iron-deficiency anemia and order iron panels/infusions. It may be a long shot, but hoping to get some clinical insight and understanding from others who might manage IV iron in their clinics. Currently we do have patients that routinely get iron infusi

Got a script for it, but can't find it from our warehouse our McKesson. Also, couldn't figure out an equivalent alternative. It's B12-iron-folate

I’m a nurse and I was impulsively thinking of ordering 0.5 mg of risperdal tablet STAT just because pt’s family were yelling at me and stating pt needed medications urgently. So have you seen something crazy like a STAT order of like multivitamin? Pretty sure ppl would get written up for that lol.

Pharmacists of reddit, I come to you with questions about medicines and expiration dates. Are some medicines labeled with expiration dates just because of legal obligation? For example, canned goods have expiration dates of a couple years, when its common knowledge they can be safely consumed 5+

The compounding pharmacy that I work at uses a 24 port Baxter pump. I have worked in TPN pharmacies that would do manual ads for things like insulin per patient, but we don't do ads here., There is currently a process suggestion to remove multivitamin from the pump and have us manually add one ml t

I just received a call from group plan pharmacy and made the mistake of answering some of their questions. After the call I searched them up and I found out that they were a scam. How can I stop this from happening? Do I call my insurance? “I'm guessing their angle is to bill your insurance company