Pharmacy Practice Lab 2 Past Paper 2020-2021 PDF

Pharmacy Practice 2020-2021 Lab 2 Pharmacist management to DRPs Pharmacy Practice-LAB 2- Dr Salem Abukres 2020-2021 1 Pharmacist management of DRPs Problem Management A. Unreadable: Do not sup...

Pharmacy Practice 2020-2021 Lab 2 Pharmacist management to DRPs Pharmacy Practice-LAB 2- Dr Salem Abukres 2020-2021 1 Pharmacist management of DRPs Problem Management A. Unreadable: Do not supply the drug unless you are …% sure. e.g Bad hand writing (Solution?) Avoid being in this situation by 1. B. Unrecognisable: Training: before you work as a pharmacist you must work under e.g you can read the name but the supervision of a registered pharmacists for 3-6 months or you don’t know what is it? Not in even 1 year your sources also. 2. Identify all medications available in your place of work and in the market. Pharmacy Practice-LAB 2- Dr Salem Abukres 2020-2021 2 Pharmacist management of DRPs Problem Management A. Unreadable: Use other data in the e.g Bad hand writing (Solution?) prescription such as strength, dosage from etc. B. Unrecognisable: Ask another pharmacist e.g you can read the name but the you don’t know what is it? Not in Ask the patient about the your sources also. indication Call the prescriber Pharmacy Practice-LAB 2- Dr Salem Abukres 2020-2021 3 Pharmacist management of DRPs Problem Management 1. see if the interaction can be prevented or C. Interaction Problems (Drug- significantly minimised by, for example, changing the timing of administration. Drug, Drug-Disease, etc) 2. evaluate the risk from very low to high. Do not dispense if its high before contacting the prescriber. 3. if the risk is low to medium and no other options are available you may dispense the medication providing that the benefit is far greater than the risk 4. inform the patient about the possible side effects they may suffer as a result of these interactions Note: do not under-estimate or over-estimate the problem. Pharmacy Practice-LAB 2- Dr Salem Abukres 2020-2021 4 Pharmacist management of DRPs Problem Management D. Drug Choice Problem (Patient 1. evaluate the risk and call or gets or is going to get a wrong refer back to the prescriber. (or no drug) drug for his/her 2. do not change the dose disease and/or condition) before contacting the prescriber E. Dosing problem (Patient gets 3. Remember this could be more or less than the amount of intended by the doctor or it drug he/she requires could be an error. Pharmacy Practice-LAB 2- Dr Salem Abukres 2020-2021 5 Pharmacist management of DRPs Problem Management A. Misarrangement: Case1: always minimise the risk of Case 1. Two completely different drugs but error by standard stock have the same pack design if placed close together this may….. (Increase pharmacist management. error probability). ( think of a solution) Case 2: place the new drugs at the Case 2. Nearly expired were placed at the back (fist in- first out or first expiry- back this causes( dispense longer and keep first out), check expiry date weekly. sooner). This may lead to… (dispensing For the medication that you rarely expired drugs- financial loss) dispense check before supply. Case 3. Dispensing of incomplete pack of the drug. Case 3: keep incomplete pack open Question 3: discuss 3 problems that may so you and colleagues know that result from misarrangement and how you can it's not complete. avoid or minimise these problems Pharmacy Practice-LAB 2- Dr Salem Abukres 2020-2021 6  Different companies and If you have the same trade name different prices(patient confuse as the prescription says, you may and/ or misunderstand (loss of dispense without telling the trust). Think of solution patient that you have other drug made by another manufactory. But if the drug is too expensive it is good practice to inform the patient. Pharmacy Practice-LAB 2- Dr Salem Abukres 2020-2021 7 Pharmacist management of DRPs Conflict of interest between the Always patient’s safety is your Owner and the patient) priority. You may benefit your place of work when it's possible without negatively affecting the patient. Pharmacy Practice-LAB 2- Dr Salem Abukres 2020-2021 8 Questions Question 1: Discuss pharmacist’ Question 4: discuss how you can management of interaction avoid patient confuse that may problems. result from different drug companies/ manufactures available Question 2: Discuss pharmacist’ at pharmacies. management of drug Question 5: The pharmacy owner/ choice/dosing problems. manager asks you to dispense only Question 3: discuss 3 problems one pack of a drug A, but a patient that may result from requests more than one pack, describe how you manage this misarrangement and how you can conflict. avoid or minimise these problems Pharmacy Practice-LAB 2- Dr Salem Abukres 2020-2021 9