International Nurses Association

A pharmacist and pharmacy technicians have a very big responsibility to ensure the medications they provide are safe and accurate, and in most cases, they are.  Pharmacists have extensive training, and ongoing training to ensure they are providing the safest delivery of medication possible.  That being said, sometimes errors occur, regardless of the great systems we have put in place to try and prevent them. The Filling Process When a prescribed medication is received from a pharmacist, the work begins.  The pharmacist does not simply open a bottle of pills or liquid and dump into another bottle and place a sticker on the bottle with the patients name and dosage information.  It's actually a lot more involved than most people think. The prescription is received by the pharmacist.  They generally look the patients name up in their system to determine if this patient has an account with them. This is a very important step because just like a doctor in a medi...