Medication errors are a rising concern among healthcare providers. According to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approximately 1.3 million people experience either death or injury due to medication mishaps (medication error reports, 2009). Errors occur in all level of the healthcare field that can lead to someone’s death. However, pharmacists no matter what setting whether it’s anything from retail to manage care their responsibilities in preventing drug errors are significant. A Pharmacist is a drug expert they are the last person who can catch any errors. Pharmacists reduce the medical error by assessing every patient carefully, improving patient education, and improving communication with the healthcare community.
A pharmacist is …show more content…
For one a pharmacist is respected among peers as the drug and medicine expert. With this responsibility of having the utmost knowledge about all medicines. In retail setting, pharmacists are regarded as the “Safety” of the all dispensed medicines. The use of technology in the retail settings has reduced the number of errors. The accuracy scanner uses the National Drug Code (NDC) barcode to match the bottle of the pharmacy bottle and prescription label. One of the most common errors that of medical errors are drug to drug interactions (Kripalani, …show more content…
Pharmacist that work in different setting will have drastically opposing views on the role of a pharmacist in the communication scheme of the healthcare system. In clinical setting where the pharmacist is allow to go on run which physicians and nurses less communication error occur. What happen in most cases outside of the clinical setting the physician will diagnose a patient with a disease a prescribe them a drug according to his believe this is where the problems begin. In some cases, doctors will prescribe a medication without knowing about possible drug interaction or allergies. The pharmacist will then receive the prescription and have to contact the physician in order to get the order changed to something that will this situation. In addition, as mention before written prescription are commonly confused. Among the countless reasons they are misinterpreted outdated Latin term, handwriting, and misspelling are common ones seen in
A pharmacist is …show more content…
For one a pharmacist is respected among peers as the drug and medicine expert. With this responsibility of having the utmost knowledge about all medicines. In retail setting, pharmacists are regarded as the “Safety” of the all dispensed medicines. The use of technology in the retail settings has reduced the number of errors. The accuracy scanner uses the National Drug Code (NDC) barcode to match the bottle of the pharmacy bottle and prescription label. One of the most common errors that of medical errors are drug to drug interactions (Kripalani, …show more content…
Pharmacist that work in different setting will have drastically opposing views on the role of a pharmacist in the communication scheme of the healthcare system. In clinical setting where the pharmacist is allow to go on run which physicians and nurses less communication error occur. What happen in most cases outside of the clinical setting the physician will diagnose a patient with a disease a prescribe them a drug according to his believe this is where the problems begin. In some cases, doctors will prescribe a medication without knowing about possible drug interaction or allergies. The pharmacist will then receive the prescription and have to contact the physician in order to get the order changed to something that will this situation. In addition, as mention before written prescription are commonly confused. Among the countless reasons they are misinterpreted outdated Latin term, handwriting, and misspelling are common ones seen in