This customizable document, Floor Stock, is taken from MCN Healthcare’s Imaging Services Policy and Procedure Manual. For more than 20 years, MCN has been the health care industry’s leading provider of policy and procedure templates, forms, competencies and other compliance tools.

MCN provides more than 80 health care specific policy and procedure manuals for Acute Care Hospitals, Ambulatory Care, Behavioral Health, Home Health, Physician Practice, and Long Term Care. MCN’s policy and procedure manuals focus on the latest healthcare "hot topic" issues related to patient safety and prevention of medical healthcare errors.

Here is some sample content from Floor Stock:

	POLICY: Responsibility for control of floor stock medications within this hospital rests with the Pharmacy Department. Policies and procedures are designed to ensure the safe and accurate dispensing of medications throughout the hospital. These policies will be approved by the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee. PROCEDURE: Floor Stock: Medications are maintained in specific areas of the hospital, such as Imaging Services, Cardiac Catheterization Lab and Surgery. These medications are intended for use by licensed independent practitioners with appropriate clinical privileges who are...
Second excerpt:
	...ordering, preparing and administering drugs. Only those medications approved by the medical staff for inclusion in the floor stock supply will be dispensed and stored as floor stock. Medications contained in floor stock are stored in a secured, locked cabinet. Responsibility for security of the floor stock rests with the supervising licensed practitioner or Chief Technologist overseeing the department in which the floor stock is stored. Medications contained in floor stock are stored...