One of the most important tasks for me to complete as a pharmacy technician, is the accurate counting of prescriptions. During this situation, I receive written messages from my fellow technicians who have to decode the prescriptions that the doctors will send to us for patients. These most importantly consist of how much of each medication a patient needs dispensed. Occasionally I have to count all over again due to loosing track because of noise in the workplace.
For this profession, accuracy is a top priority as even the simplest, honest mistakes can results in big problems with patients that suffer from serious medical conditions. For example, if the wrong amount is dispensed for a 30 day supply, when too little is dispensed the patient …show more content…
To prevent dispensing of the wrong medications or similar problems, we double check the National Drug Codes (NDCs) to make sure they match appropriately. Walter Jessen explains to us from studies conducted by 20/20 “The overall error rate was 22% and included too many or too few pills, faulty and missing instructions on the labeling, and failure to put a childproof cap on one prescription.” (Jessen 4). We all must be as accurate as possible in doing medication orders for every patient. Not only does this job require good rates of accuracy, but being able to work in a fast paced environment and under …show more content…
This causes me to sometimes lose track of where I was at in regards to how much medication, causing to start from square one again. Every now and then, I’ll kindly tell my coworkers not to be so distracting when I am concentration on what I’m trying to accomplish. We work in a busy environment which does lead to more chances of error due the problems with noise.
The psychological noise for me outweighs the outside, even my physiological noise. The type of physiological noise I’d experience would be sore feet, though I do not talk about it to anyone at work, I do my absolute best not to make it an issue. As mentioned, these thoughts still creep in at times, which distract me from my job at times. While there is other noise at work, this noise does not cause as significant of a problem as the thoughts do. Fear is a major barrier in any profession, especially health care; everything must be done with confidence.
In the pharmacy, it is our responsibility to be sure that we have counted the right amount of medication for each patient. We have ourselves to blame if a miscounting has occurred. These mistakes are frequent as the fast pace can get us carried away as to the fact that many of us want to just get through each order as fast as
For this profession, accuracy is a top priority as even the simplest, honest mistakes can results in big problems with patients that suffer from serious medical conditions. For example, if the wrong amount is dispensed for a 30 day supply, when too little is dispensed the patient …show more content…
To prevent dispensing of the wrong medications or similar problems, we double check the National Drug Codes (NDCs) to make sure they match appropriately. Walter Jessen explains to us from studies conducted by 20/20 “The overall error rate was 22% and included too many or too few pills, faulty and missing instructions on the labeling, and failure to put a childproof cap on one prescription.” (Jessen 4). We all must be as accurate as possible in doing medication orders for every patient. Not only does this job require good rates of accuracy, but being able to work in a fast paced environment and under …show more content…
This causes me to sometimes lose track of where I was at in regards to how much medication, causing to start from square one again. Every now and then, I’ll kindly tell my coworkers not to be so distracting when I am concentration on what I’m trying to accomplish. We work in a busy environment which does lead to more chances of error due the problems with noise.
The psychological noise for me outweighs the outside, even my physiological noise. The type of physiological noise I’d experience would be sore feet, though I do not talk about it to anyone at work, I do my absolute best not to make it an issue. As mentioned, these thoughts still creep in at times, which distract me from my job at times. While there is other noise at work, this noise does not cause as significant of a problem as the thoughts do. Fear is a major barrier in any profession, especially health care; everything must be done with confidence.
In the pharmacy, it is our responsibility to be sure that we have counted the right amount of medication for each patient. We have ourselves to blame if a miscounting has occurred. These mistakes are frequent as the fast pace can get us carried away as to the fact that many of us want to just get through each order as fast as