The document describes the process of processing a prescription order in a pharmacy. It involves receiving the prescription, reading and verifying the prescription, numbering and dating it, labeling the container, preparing and packaging the medication, rechecking the order, recording the transaction, pricing and filing the prescription, and delivering the medication to the patient. Key steps include verifying the prescription is accurate, labeling the container with important information like dosage, warnings, and expiration date, ensuring the right medication and quantity are dispensed, and maintaining records of prescriptions for tracking purposes.
The document describes the process of processing a prescription order in a pharmacy. It involves receiving the prescription, reading and verifying the prescription, numbering and dating it, labeling the container, preparing and packaging the medication, rechecking the order, recording the transaction, pricing and filing the prescription, and delivering the medication to the patient. Key steps include verifying the prescription is accurate, labeling the container with important information like dosage, warnings, and expiration date, ensuring the right medication and quantity are dispensed, and maintaining records of prescriptions for tracking purposes.
The document describes the process of processing a prescription order in a pharmacy. It involves receiving the prescription, reading and verifying the prescription, numbering and dating it, labeling the container, preparing and packaging the medication, rechecking the order, recording the transaction, pricing and filing the prescription, and delivering the medication to the patient. Key steps include verifying the prescription is accurate, labeling the container with important information like dosage, warnings, and expiration date, ensuring the right medication and quantity are dispensed, and maintaining records of prescriptions for tracking purposes.
The document describes the process of processing a prescription order in a pharmacy. It involves receiving the prescription, reading and verifying the prescription, numbering and dating it, labeling the container, preparing and packaging the medication, rechecking the order, recording the transaction, pricing and filing the prescription, and delivering the medication to the patient. Key steps include verifying the prescription is accurate, labeling the container with important information like dosage, warnings, and expiration date, ensuring the right medication and quantity are dispensed, and maintaining records of prescriptions for tracking purposes.
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PROCESSING THE PRESCRIPTION ORDER
MAGISTRAL PHARMACY (Dispensing Pharmacy)
Most important division of the pharmaceutical practice It deals with preparation and dispensing of medicines intended to be compounded extemporaneously or as the occasion or physicians needs may require. MAGISTRAL PHARMACY (Dispensing Pharmacy) The ability to practice extemporaneous compounding successfully depends largely upon the personal qualities of the pharmacist. It calls for the exercise of more tact, knowledge and ability than any other activity in pharmacy.
PHARMACIST should: Estimate length of time required to fill the Rx To price the Rx if requested by the patient. 2. READING AND CHECKING THE Rx Read the Rx in the privacy of the prescription department There should be no doubt as to the ingredient or quantities prescribed. If something is illegible or if it appears that an error has been made. Pharmacist should consult another pharmacist or the prescriber. Should verify omission or failure to specify desired strength of medication
The size and frequency of dose be carefully noted and checked:
1. age 2. weight and condition of patient 3. possible influence of other drugs being taken 4. Frequency of administration 3. NUMBERING AND DATING THE Rx It is a universal practice to number the Rx order and to place the same number on the label. To connect the bottle or package with the original medication order. 4. LABELING THE Rx Prescription label prepared by pharmacist, an assistant may be employed for this purpose. Rx labels should be computerized or typewritten to make them neat, attractive and legible A prescription should have an aesthetic and professional appearing label.
The size of the label should be in conformance with the size of the prescription container. Name, address and telephone number of the pharmacy are generally imprinted in the label. The pharmacist should give clear directions Label of Compounded Rx should include: Number of Rx Date of filling Name of Patient Quality and quantity of ingredients Label of Compounded Rx should include: 5. Directions for administration 6. Name of Physician
Label of Unit Dose Rx should include:
Name of Patient Generic name of drug Brand Name Manufacturer
Label of Unit Dose Rx should include:
5. Dosage strength
6. Expiry date 7. Directions for use 8. Name of Pharmacist
AUXILLARY LABELS emphasize a number of important aspects of the dispensing
medication including: 1. proper use 2. handling 3. storage
AUXILLARY LABELS 4. Refill status 5. Necessary warnings and precautions Example: Shake well POISON Should Not Be Swallowed Keep Out of Reach of Children 5. PREPARING THE Rx Information Necessary: Adjuvant used Order of mixing Amount of each ingredients
Capsule size Information Needed: 5. Type and size of container Name and product identification number of manufacturer. Partially filled Rx should be returned to the buyer after recording the partial filling in the Rx book Partial filling of prohibited or List A drugs shall not be allowed. 6. PACKAGING Pharmacist should consider the size, shape, mouth opening, color and composition in packaging
TYPES OF CONTAINERS GENERALLY USED:
Round Vials for solid dosage forms
as capsules and tablets.
Prescription Bottles for dispensing liquids of low viscosity
Pharmacist should CHECK for:
1. Permeability of containers to atmospheric gases and to moisture vapor. 2. Leaching of constituents of the container to internal content
Pharmacist should CHECK for:
3. Absorption of drugs from content container 4. Transmission of light through the container 5. Alteration of the container on storage, particularly at extremes in temperature.
Child-Resistant Containers To prevent accidental poisoning resulted from ingestion of medication and other household chemicals by children. With safety closures 7. RECHECKING The importance of this step should not be overemphasized Every Rx should be rechecked by the Pharmacist All details of the label should be rechecked against the Rx order to verify directions, patients name, Rx number, date and prescribers name 8. DELIVERING THE PRESCRIPTION Every prescription leaving the store should not only be correctly and skillfully compounded but the physical appearance of the finished preparation should indicate the pride and care which the pharmacist has taken in his professional work. 9. RECORDING A record of the prescriptions dispensed should be maintained in addition to the prescription files. This would permit rapid location of prescription orders.
Different RECORDS used:
1. Prescription Book 2. Poison Book 3. Dangerous Drug Record Book 10. PRICING MOST COMMONLY USED: % Mark-up
Dispensing Price = Cost of Ingr. + (Cost of Ingr. X % Mark-up)
2. % Mark-up + Minimum Fee
DP = Cost of Ingr. + (Cost of Ingr. X % mark-up) + Minimum Fee *DP = dispensing price Minimum Fee - recover the combined cost of container, label, overhead & professional service
3. Professional Fee DP = Cost of Ingr. + Professional Fee The greater the cost of the Rx ingredients the greater is the fee Professional fee - represents the payment for professional service
Code in Pricing letters selected should have 10 letters with no
duplicate letters. Example:
C 5
K 6
11. FILING Too be kept for 2 years Prescription File Types: 1. metal or cardboard unit 2. partitioned drawers
Methods of Preserving Prescriptions:
1. Filing on string or wire 2. Pasting on scrap book (old method) 3. Writing a copy in a blank book and returning the original
Methods of Preserving Prescriptions:
4. Wrapping the Rx in packages of 100 and packing ten consecutive hundreds in wooden box (old method) 5. Pasting the Rx to a card which is then filed in a cabinet
Computer filing of prescription is most recommended.
Exercises: Rx Salbutamol tablet.2mg Theophylline tablet ..125mg Lactose q.s. .300mg In one cap # 20 Sig. One cap b.i.d. p.c. and H.S.
Data Nuelin tablet .. P 3.75 Ventolin tablet .. P 4.50 Lactose . P 40.00 / half Kg Capsule . P 0.75/piece Minimum fee P30.00 % mark up 15 % and Professional Fee P 50.00
QUESTIONS: What is the dispensing price using the % mark up plus minimum fee method? Cost of the above Rx per capsule What is the dispensing price using professional fee method? What is the daily dose of Salbutamol?
