What do you do when you drop pills on the floor?

[july]

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i take em and hope for the best.













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[eeyore spice]

don't forget the nasty, greasy, smushed used tube of ointment that people try to hand you.

ick
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I get those in the return bins. Which aren't 2 feet away from the biohazard bins. Do they think we're going to redispense them?? Would you want to use the same inhaler as a guy with MRSA??

And then there's the Analpram....

 

[YanaB]

haha, this happened to me yesterday which was my second day of work. while filling a baker cell, 1 tablet fell on the ground and i said "oops, do i throw it out?" and the pharmacist said yeah and then whispers "only cause a customer saw you"

The exact same thing happened to me the first time i dropped a pill on the floor! But seriously, pills aren't sterile to begin with so there's no problem in just picking them up quickly off a dry floor...

 

[jlpolla]

There is proof to that point...While counting out some Trazodone 150mg at work, I found a hair 'baked' into a pill...everyone was amazed even those seasoned RPh had never seen that. We resultingly sent it back to the company, not sure what happened from there. I am just glad it was caught and not given to the patient, imagine that complaint!! 😀

The exact same thing happened to me the first time i dropped a pill on the floor! But seriously, pills aren't sterile to begin with so there's no problem in just picking them up quickly off a dry floor...

 

[tussionex]

the manufacturing process for tablets is clean, but doesn't even pretend to be sterile!

ew, a hair! in the tablet!

also gross....found a hair under the over-wrap of a K rider...which should be sterile!

ick

 

[YanaB]

the other day i opened a brand new bottle of Levaquin, and the top of the bottle was charred and smelled like burned plastic....pills also smelled terrible!

 

[pkpd]

Talking about contaminated pills....reminded me of this customer that stood at my window and watch me count her pills. And she asked me:
Why aren't you wearing any gloves when you count my pills? You should be wearing gloves.
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I was speechless.

 

[twester]

Talking about contaminated pills....reminded me of this customer that stood at my window and watch me count her pills. And she asked me:
Why aren't you wearing any gloves when you count my pills? You should be wearing gloves.
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I was speechless.

Wow, I would be too. (Maybe I'd point out the hand sanitizer we keep handy and explain to her how nearly compulsive I am about hand-washing>) She had a point. Restaurant workers wear gloves. I instruct the cashier dude at Chipotle how to properly wash his hands before he dishes out my guacamole. But, it sure would be a pain to have to fill scripts with gloves on.