What are three organizational jobs pharmacy technicians can perform for data received, stored and used?

What will be an ideal response?


Collect information from the patient or caregiver while receiving the prescription or drug order to be used by the pharmacist in performing a prospective drug review.
Pass the information on to the computer entry area.
Enter the collected information into the computer and update the patient profile.
Retrieve facts stored in the computer to be used later in the workflow.
Following the pharmacy's system make sure any allergy or drug incompatibility information is available and known to the pharmacist overseeing the drug review.
In a community pharmacy when counseling is performed, the pharmacist needs the information regarding the patient's other medication the patient is, or has recently been taking.
Auxiliary labels should be assembled or placed on the bottle in addition to the prescription label when appropriate.
In a hospital billing information needs to be entered.  This may be done automatically, but the pharmacy technician needs to understand and check information.
In a community pharmacy, receipt and patient information leaflets need to be placed with the correct prescriptions.
In a community pharmacy, the technician should determine which prescriptions require an FDA Med Guide to accompany the prescription and pull or print them so they will be available for delivery to the patient.

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