Incorrect written date all the time

[ancienbon]

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I have been floating at a store where all techs dont check the date a script is written when typing. They automatically type it for the default s date. It does not matter how many times i tell them. Say a script was written 3 months ago, they would just put the written date as today.

 

[zelman]

Welcome to retail, where "close enough" is our goal.

 

[bananaface]

1) Make them fix it while you are on duty
2) talk to the pharmacy manager to get them monitored and held accountable
3) talk to your boss to ensure the pharmacy manager to ensure that the pharmacy manager is monitored and held accountable
4) if corporate won't enforce the fix, consider reporting the whole damn lot to the board of pharmacy

If this happens on controls and refills are dispensed in error, all involved pharmacists licenses are at risk and the DEA could rightfully accuse them of improperly dispensing a controlled substance. It is kind of a big deal.

 

[SClENCE]

1) Make them fix it while you are on duty
2) talk to the pharmacy manager to get them monitored and held accountable
3) talk to your boss to ensure the pharmacy manager to ensure that the pharmacy manager is monitored and held accountable
4) if corporate won't enforce the fix, consider reporting the whole damn lot to the board of pharmacy

If this happens on controls and refills are dispensed in error, all involved pharmacists licenses are at risk and the DEA could rightfully accuse them of improperly dispensing a controlled substance. It is kind of a big deal.

Yeah I caught an expired CII a few weeks ago. I guess you don't expect it when most CIIs are brought the same day/too early but it can and does happen!

 

[trailerpark]

How long are they good for in your state?

 

[maria1oh]

Also important to check the date on emergency room scripts

 

[owlegrad]

Also important to check the date on emergency room scripts

Why is it more important than any other script?

 

[zelman]

How long are they good for in your state?

5 or 30 days depending on where they were written.

 

[owlegrad]

5 or 30 days depending on where they were written.

That's stupid.

 

[zelman]

That's stupid.

Yup. Thanks Florida.

 

[owlegrad]

Yup. Thanks Florida.

I am not sure what you are referring to?

 

[zelman]

I am not sure what you are referring to?

About 99% of oxycodone Rx's written in Florida and filled in Massachusetts were from pill mills, so now CII's are only valid if written in-state for 30 days, out of state for 5 days, and opioid CII's that aren't from a state that touches Massachusetts or Maine aren't valid here at all.

 

[trailerpark]

My state is 1 year, but I'm so glad we have a PMP. Every time I use it I just check all 22 states on there just in case. Why don't they add all 50? It's so easy to see what controls they got and where and how much, days supply, etc...

 

[Sine Cura]

Every state maintains its own PDMP per state regulation (if there is one) and there is no requirement that the data be accessible to pharmacists in other states. For example, NV allows its data to be accessed via AZ's PMP website (you are not even allowed to register for NV PDMP directly even if you have a NV license, if you already have an AZ license - I tried this already) but CA does not share its data with other states.

The multiple state option might not even work (depending on your state PMP website) as I check other states once in a while through the AZ PMP website but usually nothing pops up (except for NV) despite the patient profile clearly showing controlled substance fills at CVS in the other states that I specified to be checked.

 

[maria1oh]

We have been told not to fill emergency room scripts/narcotics if they are a week old. It's a red flag for someone to wait a week to fill a narcotic prescription from the emergency room. Not so much a red flag to wait a week to fill a lisinopril prescription.

The Ohio PMP has a warning that selecting all the neighboring states will cause the system to process much slower so I usually just do an Ohio search because I'm located centrally in the state.