Watch the unit-dosed bottles. Cozaar is the worst. The bottle resembles other Merck bottles with quantities of 30 (Singulair), but this bottle has #90 in it. Most likely, if you slap a sticker on the stock bottle, you'll be giving the patient #90 when you meant to give them #30.
The unit-dosed bottles could be open too if a previous patient needed a quantity that was less than the unit-dose quantity. Therefore, you can't put the sticker directly on the bottle, because it's no longer a full bottle.
When you're checking, open the cap of all of the unit-dosed stock bottles to see if the bottle has been opened and if it's missing pills before you send it out.
I open bottles before I slap on the stickers, because a lot of people make this mistake. (I used to have really soft hands before I worked in a pharmacy, but I can't have soft hands if I have to open lots of bottles at work. It's no biggie though. I have a callus from writing notes in class too
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At my store, the Plavix bottle has #30. Most of the time, we give patients a labeled stock bottle. At my IPPE rotation, the stock bottle has #90. They have to count out the pills.
I don't know which pharmacy you work for and how their system is, but I think the F4 thing at Walgreen's is advantageous. At Wags, if you don't agree with what the technician/student has typed, you or the technician can change it before the script is ever filled.
Always check the names on the scripts first before you verify them, because you have to make sure that the basket with script, drug, and label has only one patient's medications in it (unless you want to put members of the same family with the same last name and the same address in the same bag). Otherwise, you might put two unrelated patients' medications in the same bag. Cashiers won't always catch this when it happens, so the patient ends up buying someone else's medication along with theirs.
Hopefully you're stapling the script bag closed after you check the medication so that another patient's medication won't get mixed in later on. This could happen when the cashier shuffles through the pick-up bins. You don't want medication bottles falling out of script bags and then ending up in the wrong bag, because the cashier was in too much of a hurry to put the medication back in it's correct bag.
Patients have to verify their phone number, address, or DOB at pick-up. There's no way around that. If John Smith Jr. wants to pick up his script, then it's wrong if you sell him John Smith Sr.'s script.
I hope this post helps you.
Good luck!