Dispensing Misatakes

[shan]

First thing is always double check before you let it go out of your hands, for example "Dispensing Misatakes" I would have double checked the spelling atleast in the thread heading.

Shan

[mhb08112]

First thing is always double check before you let it go out of your hands, for example "Dispensing Misatakes" I would have double checked the spelling atleast in the thread heading.

Shan

so easy to miss something like this! Never noticed it until you pointed it out... I'm scared about having to do actual accuracy checks one day...

[SolomonQ]

My mistakes seem to be not writing CD drugs into the CD register

keep a basket of a non-popular colour. keep all cd rx to be entered in there. put a pharmacist sticker/note so no one touches them. hold on to any cds rx that you know are going out that day. ggod practice to keep dispensed CD in cupboard but in my opinion as long as you're under direct control of the bag its ok to keep it on the dispensing bench IN A BASKET infront of you, with a pharmacist sticker/note. Remember the patient's name. when they come back tell the person handing out: get the back blue box signed and give this back to you.

[DavidS]

But what do you guys do for this kind of thing?

Nowadays I'm a real pain aout CDs. If I get a script, I want the stock balanced against the register before I do the script, and the script stays with me (after being accuracy checked by someone else, and the residual stock checked) until its entered in the register. I do use a basket just as Solomon suggests: I used to use my shirt pocket until I took a few home one busy day.

The script gets entered as soon as it has been collected. Everything else waits. PCTs, police, regulators, courts, foreign governments issuing visas, all get very very shirty about CD discrepancies. The fact that there is no sense in this at all from a patient safety point of view cuts no ice with them at all, I'm afraid.

[Fleegle]

Ah...the recurring nightmare of the CD register which doesn't balance.

Twenty years ago, as manager in various shops, I worried about it. Where had the errant single MST 10mg tablet gone? ...the pack of pethidine that couldn't be accounted for...etc etc.
Always, the single tablets never turned up, and the packs could be accounted for, every time, by other pharmacists failing in their duty to register them out, or assuming I would miraculously know it should be entered the next day, as some locum couldn't be bothered doing it themselves. (good locums don't take this the wrong way..I was a locum for 16 years..I refer only to the cowboys/girls).

Now, frankly, I couldn't give a toss. All UK pharmacists are trained, allegedly, to identical standards, and it's not difficult to trace back to where the error was made. Just make sure you do your own job properly, and forget about the other eejits...their mistakes are their own, and will always remain so. Not yours. Worrying about others' incompetence will only lead you to premature grey hair and an early grave.

Fleegle.

[DavidS]

Worrying about others' incompetence will only lead you to premature grey hair and an early grave.

Fleegle.

Mmmmm. Already got the grey hair.

[Tesh]

I use a bic 4 coloured pen and write CD with a massive triangle around it in RED next to the item on any CD script. I show it to all dispensers so they know to hand the px to me then i leave the px in the corner of my "checking space" so I know to enter it up during a quiet moment.

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[Pharmanaut]

You spelt mistakes wrong!

Spelt?

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