Process Analysis rough draft "Filling Physician Orders"

Filling Physician Orders

Today, the medical field is growing day by day more conditions and diseases are affecting many lives. Without pharmacies and certain physician individuals would live a tougher and throbbing day-to-day life, or perhaps not live at all. Pharmacies are being use more so today than ever. In order to keep most people living comfortable with their sickness, they need medication. In order for them to get their medicines, the physician order for the prescribe medication as to filled by a pharmacy. The physician will call the order in at the pharmacy of the patient choice.

The pharmacy technician will take the order over the phone. The technician will ask the doctor about their allergies, date of birth, address (if never filled there before) and what time do they want to pick it up. The first responsibility is to check that information on the prescription is accurate, understanding the doctors' medication order and ensuring it has been completed correctly. Next, the pharmacy technician duties is to retrieve the correct medication for counting, pouring weighing and measuring as detailed on the prescription. The technician will pull the medicine off the back shelf in the pharmacy. After that, scan the medicine bottle barcode at your work station. Scanner the barcode will let you know if that's the right medication. If you picked up the wrong bottle off the shelf it will show a red flag.

After the pharmacy technician has set the medication their next step is to correctly count or measure the medication. Next, print the label information which will have the patient's information on it as well as the medication dosage and information about the prescribed medication for the patient to read, by going to the patient's name in the computer. You will continue with, packaging each individual type of medication separately and accurately labeling the medication with the prescribed dosages. Once this has been completed, the pharmacy technician's supposed to put up the prescribed medication in order by time so they can be verified for accuracy by a licensed pharmacist. Next, update inventory records, prepare any medical insurance claims and after the prescription is filled, they will then prepare the price for the medication and record the prescription in the record keeping system. Depending on the pharmacy technicians certification additional roles and responsibilities can also include making medicine compounds using specific recipes and sterile product preparation if IV certified.

The last step, call the patients to let them know that there medications are ready for pick up. Once the patient come to the pharmacy, ask the patients for his or her name, date of birth and how many prescriptions do they have. The pharmacy tech will pull the filled orders; once you get back to the customer ask them for their licensing. The technician must check and make sure the address on the label is right on their licensing. In the meantime, ask the customer do they have any questions about their medications or would they like to speak with the pharmacist. Then, check them out at the cash register, make sure to say have a wonderful day.

Finally, the main goal of pharmaceutical care is to improve the quality of patients. Lives by the use of medications that have been prescribed by a physician. This paper is to show society that working in a pharmacy has a lot of steps that need to be followed to complete a physician orders. Working with pharmacists to fulfill their goals as a provider for pharmaceutical care would be one of many positive results of such an enlargement. The paper begins with a description of the evolution of the role of pharmacy technicians and of their status in the work force today.