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Prescriptions should be written neatly and can be read easily. Pharmacists should ALWAYS double check the medications they dispense. Stocks should also be checked especially their expiry dates.
Prescriptions should be written neatly and can be read easily. Pharmacists should ALWAYS double check the medications they dispense. Stocks should also be checked especially their expiry dates.
Prescriptions should be written neatly and can be read easily. Pharmacists should ALWAYS double check the medications they dispense. Stocks should also be checked especially their expiry dates.
In the hospital setting, medication errors cannot be fully prevented but
there are simple ways on how to minimize the medication errors happening in the hospital. Prescriptions should be written neatly and can be read easily. Doctors nowadays write prescriptions so quick that it can be a source of error. Nurses will have to transcribe and order the medication and the pharmacists will dispense the said order. If the nurse transcribed and ordered the wrong medication, the pharmacist will dispense the wrong medication thus, creating a medication error. One way to minimize the chances of medication error is to double check the prescription carefully. If you do not understand or cannot read the prescription properly, do not hesitate to ask the doctor. It is better to ask questions than to make a wild guess, since the life of the patient is at stake. Pharmacists usually dispense hundreds of drugs a day in the hospital setting. Pharmacists create ways on how to minimize the chances of medication errors through how they display their stocks. Look a like and sound a like drugs (LASA drugs) should not be placed beside each other in order to prevent wrong dispensing. Drugs with different dosage forms should also not be placed beside each other. Pharmacists should ALWAYS double check the medications they dispense. Double or triple checking will take time but it is better to be safe than sorry. Pharmacists should read the labels carefully since there are certain manufacturers who create similar labels for different drugs. Once the drugs has been dispensed, the nurses will also have to check them in case there is a wrong dispensing. Double checking is an important step in preventing medication errors. Stocks should also be checked especially their expiry dates. It is best to check these stocks every week, to make sure there are no discolorations and such. One strategy to use is the famous FIFO or First in, first out strategy. This strategy makes sure that the drugs that are first displayed should also be the first ones to be dispensed to the patients to prevent drugs expiring.
In the clinical setting, clinical pharmacists usually check the
medications prescribed and ordered by the doctors. To prevent medication errors, the clinical pharmacists should double check and make sure the drugs
being administered to the patient is correct and accurate. The clinical
pharmacists should not hesitate and suggest ways on how to improve the condition of the patient through their interventions. Their interventions can actually help reduce the chances of medication errors since the clinical pharmacists have a good knowledge on drug interactions. The clinical pharmacists should always be available to the doctors and nurses in case of emergencies. In case a medication error occurred, always make sure it is reported to the right authorities to prevent the same error to happen again.