3.2 Medical Unit Inventory Management process (b)
The second identified macro-process deals with the
materials management at the medical unit level.
The process starts when an administration is planned.
This passage is particularly important because, without
defining a provisioning politics, it is able to introduce the
real requirements data in the definition of an order,
allowing the medical unit (and hospital pharmacy, as a
consequence) to manage its stocks facing patient
requirements when they emerge.
The actors involved in this process are the nurse manager
and the pharmacist, and the two main activities are:
(b.1) Medical unit stock management and replenishment
(handling of incoming and wasted materials,
dispensing and keeping the warehouse
management system up-to-date, defining
replenishment requests),