Hi.......pour yourself a large brandy...........
Hell what a mess I have had today. The pharmacist yesterday had given a woman's drugs to a very old confused man. The SOP states you should always check the patients name and address, but we looked at the CCTV of the pharmacist giving out the script, and it appeared that nothing was said.
So that led to a confused guy going home with a womans drugs. He ignored about half of them, but last night took: -
1 x 50mcg thyroxine (labelled 100mg)
1 x 150mg tradazone tablet
1 x 5mg amlodipine tablet
1 x 20mg simvastatin tablet
He lived in sheltered housing, and the warden wanted to take him to hospital last night, because he was so groggy from taking the trazadone. He was a grumpy kind of guy and refused to go to the hospital.
He was still a bit groggy this morning when he came back in the shop, and didn't really realise what was going on. His own medication was in the shop, waiting for him to collect - safely put away yesterday! He eventually (not yet) left the shop with the correct medication, but I was concerned he might suffer a fall, or step under a bus or something! He wouldn't listen to any advice, and got very agitated as he just wanted to leave.
When I opened up the drugs he had been given (and had just returned), among it there were 50 and 100mcg thyroxine, but the labels were the wrong way round on two boxes of each i.e. four boxes had been incorrectly labelled.
