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Old 10th, March 2007, 06:03 PM
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Default Re: Fatal Dispensing errors

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Originally Posted by silnarnin View Post
That idea sounds nice until you work in a pharmacy with 400 walk-in items a day, plus 1000 items a week in the MDS room. The trays for the homes need to be checked because people need to start the medication, and at the same time there's the items to check and people to speak to in the walk-in dispensary.
So one can choose between:
1. keeping the walk-in dispensary open and check the MDS items in the walk-in dispensary between interruptions. (I've had to do this on a saturday morning and it wasn't good)
2. Closing the walk-in dispensary and go to the MDS dispensary to check. (that might not be a good idea)
3. Stay in the walk-in dispensary and not checking the MDS items (hum... imagine that the patients are due to start that medication the following day... they would be without medication...)
4. Let the ACT check the MDS trays. --> I think most pharmacist would choose this one. What would you choose?
To be honest...
I would let some other mug run this show and find a place that is much less stressful.

If they are as busy as that they really need two pharmacists. Saying that we are too expensive is no excuse.
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