Working in a pharmacy today, just across the road from a dispensing doctors surgery. One of their patients comes in with a bag of medicines just dispensed in the surgery and tells me her husband has been told to stop his beta-blocker by a hospital, but yet noone at the surgery knew which drug was a beta-blocker. Well if whoever was dispensing those prescriptions couldnt answer that simple question, well.. I wont even bother going there.
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I had a dispenser at a DD ring and ask me if there was any difference between Prempak .625 and 1.25!
I kid you not!Linnear MRPharmS
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Originally posted by mm45 View PostWorking in a pharmacy today, just across the road from a dispensing doctors surgery. One of their patients comes in with a bag of medicines just dispensed in the surgery and tells me her husband has been told to stop his beta-blocker by a hospital, but yet noone at the surgery knew which drug was a beta-blocker. Well if whoever was dispensing those prescriptions couldnt answer that simple question, well.. I wont even bother going there.47 BC : Julius Cesar : Veni Vidi Vici : I came, I saw I conquered.
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Amazing comments....but I thought all dispensers/techs are or supposed to be NVQ qualified..... not good enough
What's going to happen when they are left to hold the fort?Kemzo the pharmacist forumly known as kemzero
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Originally posted by kemzero View PostAmazing comments....but I thought all dispensers/techs are or supposed to be NVQ qualified..... not good enough
What's going to happen when they are left to hold the fort?47 BC : Julius Cesar : Veni Vidi Vici : I came, I saw I conquered.
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Originally posted by kemzero View PostAmazing comments....but I thought all dispensers/techs are or supposed to be NVQ qualified..... not good enough
What's going to happen when they are left to hold the fort?Linnear MRPharmS
Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: The biggest cause of brain damage and 100% preventable.
In pregnancy: 1 fag is not safe, 1 x-ray is not safe and 1 drink is not safe.
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Originally posted by Linnear View PostIn a DD the dispensing is supervised by the Dr so dispenser can be shorthand typist. (Or always used to be the case, may be different now under PCT jurisdiction)Lively debate is encouraged but please respect the opinions and feelings of others.
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I can remember the case where a patient was given Oramorph Conc against a Rx for Oramorph 10/5. The patient died.
So:
1) A dispensing error was made
2) A CD was given out without a legal CD Rx being produced
3) There was a death
The outcome?
In plain English:
The patient was terminal so was going to die anyway so no real harm done.
Dr got a smacked wrist and was asked to ensure that all Rxs were checked by a Dr (which is what should have happened anyway)
I'm sure a pharmacist would have received the same result (and the confirmation of lack of legal pursuance would have arrived by flying pig!)Linnear MRPharmS
Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder: The biggest cause of brain damage and 100% preventable.
In pregnancy: 1 fag is not safe, 1 x-ray is not safe and 1 drink is not safe.
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Originally posted by Linnear View PostI can remember the case where a patient was given Oramorph Conc against a Rx for Oramorph 10/5. The patient died.
So:
1) A dispensing error was made
2) A CD was given out without a legal CD Rx being produced
3) There was a death
The outcome?
In plain English:
The patient was terminal so was going to die anyway so no real harm done.
Dr got a smacked wrist and was asked to ensure that all Rxs were checked by a Dr (which is what should have happened anyway)
I'm sure a pharmacist would have received the same result (and the confirmation of lack of legal pursuance would have arrived by flying pig!)47 BC : Julius Cesar : Veni Vidi Vici : I came, I saw I conquered.
2018 AD : Modern Man : I shopped, I clicked, I collected.
How times change.
If you find you have read something that has upset or offended you an anyway please unread it at once.
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