Part of the Pharmacy Tech’s role in greening environments is to ask their manager for recycling bins appropriate to their area. This would allow for broken medical materials/emptied plastic or glass to be recycled and used for other daily items. When it comes to pharmaceutical waste, using the appropriate channels of communication for outdated medicine to be properly disposed of in an incinerator. As a Pharmacy Technician and an employee, we may request that our equipment be looked at to see if it is also outdated and may be replaced with better, more efficient machinery. Also, while we cannot prescribe medication, we may suggest the proper way to dispose of it with the take-back policies of our state. Pharmacy Technicians may have the opportunity
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You must also consider that there is such a thing as ‘pharmacy confusion’ where even expired drugs are ‘misplaced’ and sold to drug addicts. Properly disposing of expired medicine will prevent the loss of inventory that has to be explained to both EPA and FDA. Documentation must be provided of what medications have been inventoried, sold, reconstituted, or disposed of occurs in the pharmacy and is reviewed by such organizations to protect the public and the environment from exposure. Some medical waste is toxic, flammable, corrosive, or reactive and must be disposed of following EPA guidelines. These guidelines include disposing of medications in leak-proof containers designed to also prevent spills and stealing. Preventing spills of any dosage form will protect all medications from contamination and you from exposure to toxic or corrosive chemicals. All medicines, their containers, and any other potential contaminant will be transported to a facility to be stored or immediately disposed of so that it cannot affect the environment. Therefore; in order to prevent environmental and pharmaceutical contamination - as well as loss of inventory - it is important to dispose of medical waste into the appropriate waste …show more content…
Under these requirements, it is best that the technician has an ability to handle information technology (IT). The technician may assume a supporting role for the pharmacist in the field of informatics; but the technicians must be specialized in this area. Basically, a pharmacy technician has to follow the regulations pertaining to electronic prescriptions created by the DEA and the FDA. We would still have to translate the signature code, verify- through the proper channels- that it came from that prescriber; and keep an eye on the amount of medicine being prescribed. It is very beneficial for the Pharmacy Technician to have an Electronic Health Records certification as it will give them a little more trust from their coworkers and patients to handle themselves. Nevertheless, a pharmacy technician’s role doesn’t change; just the experience needed to operate within a new context of
You must also consider that there is such a thing as ‘pharmacy confusion’ where even expired drugs are ‘misplaced’ and sold to drug addicts. Properly disposing of expired medicine will prevent the loss of inventory that has to be explained to both EPA and FDA. Documentation must be provided of what medications have been inventoried, sold, reconstituted, or disposed of occurs in the pharmacy and is reviewed by such organizations to protect the public and the environment from exposure. Some medical waste is toxic, flammable, corrosive, or reactive and must be disposed of following EPA guidelines. These guidelines include disposing of medications in leak-proof containers designed to also prevent spills and stealing. Preventing spills of any dosage form will protect all medications from contamination and you from exposure to toxic or corrosive chemicals. All medicines, their containers, and any other potential contaminant will be transported to a facility to be stored or immediately disposed of so that it cannot affect the environment. Therefore; in order to prevent environmental and pharmaceutical contamination - as well as loss of inventory - it is important to dispose of medical waste into the appropriate waste …show more content…
Under these requirements, it is best that the technician has an ability to handle information technology (IT). The technician may assume a supporting role for the pharmacist in the field of informatics; but the technicians must be specialized in this area. Basically, a pharmacy technician has to follow the regulations pertaining to electronic prescriptions created by the DEA and the FDA. We would still have to translate the signature code, verify- through the proper channels- that it came from that prescriber; and keep an eye on the amount of medicine being prescribed. It is very beneficial for the Pharmacy Technician to have an Electronic Health Records certification as it will give them a little more trust from their coworkers and patients to handle themselves. Nevertheless, a pharmacy technician’s role doesn’t change; just the experience needed to operate within a new context of