T3: Final Old Stuff Flashcards
What is the goal of transcribing?
Transform the prescription into a dispensed medication with correct instructions that can safely be interpreted by patients/caregivers
What is the MS regulation for transferring meds?
Must be done by a pharmacist or supervised intern
1. Phone and address
2. Name of transferring pharamcist
3. Date prescription was issued
4. Original and last fill date
5. Original and remaining refills
Can’t transfer any controlled substances
What is pharmacy informatics?
The use and integration of data, info, knowledge, technology, and automation in the medication use process for the purpose of improving health outcomes
What are the characteristics of a closed-loop med system?
- Involves feeding the outcomes for med management process back into current system
- Enables the development and implementation of improved practices and effective monitoring of patient care throughout the entire healthcare system
- Automation of med use processes
- Involves seamless transitions between each step of the process
- Prevents med errors
- Helps healthcare providers to make appropriate patient care decisions through the entire process
What is assess?
- Identify and prioritize problems
What is plan?
patient-centered, individualized, collaborative
What is implement?
put the plan into action, collaborate with patient and healthcare professionals
What is follow-up?
How are thing, is it effective, what changes need to be made
Develop an individualized patient-centered care plan using SMART goals
Specifc: What is the goal
Measurable: How will we know when the goal is reached
Achievable: Is it in your power to accomplish it?
Realistic: Can it be done?
Timely: When do we want to accomplish it?
Utilize appropriate PPCP documentation
- Each med condition has a care plan
- Each plan should be documented separately
What is medication use process?
multistep process in which drug travels from the pharmacy to patient
What are the steps of medication use process?
- Prescribing
- Transcribing/Documentation
- Dispensing
- Adminsitering
- Monitoring
What is prescribing?
- Evaluate the patient
- Establish need for meds
- Select right med
- Determine interactions and allergies
- Precibe med
What is Transcribing/Documentation?
- Transcribe
- Transmit to pharmacy
What is dispensing?
- Review order
- Confirm transcription
- Contact prescribe for discrepancied
- Prepar medicine
- Distribute medicine
What is administering?
- Review order
- Review warnings
- Evaulate patient
- Confirm transcription
What is monitoring?
- Assess patinet
- Report and document results
What is the purpose of medication use process?
- Provide safe and effective medication management
- You are responsible for patient safety
- Safeguard for you and patient
Explain the steps in the dispensing process
- Drop off
- Order entry
- DUR
- Filling
- Final verification
- Patient counceling
What is drop off?
- Recive prescription
- Obtain any necessary info
- Provide an estimated ready time
What is order entry?
- Scan hard copy Rx and file original
- Type Rx info into system