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For this assignment, you will need to write a response to 5 questions. Your answers do not have to be long (a paragraph should be sufficient) but they should be written in complete sentences.

  1. A patient comes to the pharmacy to pick up her prescription. You do not recognize the patient but she states her name is Kim Johnson and that she has 3 prescriptions to pick up. You go to the will-call bin and pull out a bag with her name on it. You see these are all new prescriptions. Discuss the ways you could prevent a medication error from occurring at this point.
  2. Are there any situations where a Pharmacy Technician could perform a drug utilization review? Why or why not? Describe at least three types of drug utilization review that are commonly seen in pharmacy practice.
  3. Think about the steps it takes to fill a prescription. Analyze the places errors can occur in the filling process, and discuss the types of errors that can occur.
  4. What are the strengths and limitations of pharmacy automated systems?
  5. This question has two parts:
    1. How do drug shortages impact pharmacies and patients?
    2. Using the FDA website, list three current drug shortages. For each of the three, list the name of the drug, the estimated shortage duration (if given) and the reason for shortage (if given).

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Pharmacy Practice Ways of preventing a medication error from occurring Medical errors can occur anywhere in the medical system such as in hospitals, and so forth. These mistakes can occur on medicines, surgery, diagnosis, equipment or lab reports and most of these errors result from problems that are created by today’s complex health care system. Taking part in every decision made about your health care can prevent a medical error from occurring whereby medicines, hospital stays, surgery, and others are discussed by both the patient and the health care team. Drug utilization review A drug utilization review (DUR) is an authorized, structured, ongoing review of a healthcare provider, pharmacist dispensing, and patient use of medication. This involves a view of the patient’s medication data before, during, and after dispensing for positive outcomes. A DUR should be carried out because they play a major role in aiding managed health care systems and the use of medicines. Furthermore, the results are used to advance the more efficient use of scarce health care resources. The managed care pharmacist can identify trends in prescribing within groups of patients e.g. asthma, diabetes, etc.and the pharmacist can then initiate action to improving therapy for patients with other health care members. In conclusion, DURs serve as a means of improving pharmaceutical expenditure thus reducing overall health care costs, able to provide physicians with feedback on their performance and prescribing behaviors, allowing for the comparison and contrast of healthcare providers and assisting managed health care systems in designing educational programs. Types of drug utilization review commonly seen in pharmacy practice DURs are classified into the following categories: Prospective- this the evaluation of a patient’s therapy before medication is dispensed Concurrent- this refers to ongoing monitoring of drug therapy during treatment Retrospective- this is review of therapy after the patient has received the medication The steps it takes to fill a prescription Input and initial check – this is whereby the pharmacist asks the patient about their details suc...


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