Improving Patient Safety in Medicine Dispensing

Improving patient safety
whilst dispensing medicine

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION
Dispensing of medicine can be defined as process of preparing and giving the drug to a
named a person on the basis of prescription. It is to be consider as program or event to improve
rational use which have often been concentrated on ensuring habits of prescription. It is
overlooking dispensing and patient’s use of medicines. To avoid the drug interaction and its
adverse side effect (Aboneh and et.al., 2020). Sometimes, it has been strictly follow the
regulation on dispense of drug which required. Moreover, treatment of condition such as chronic
diseases which require to intake of medication but it highly differ from one patient to another.
Pharmacists allows to follow the regulation and conduct multiple test, afterwards, it has been
represented the report to other physician but they do not authorised to prescribed. In this way,
pharmacies are necessary to maintain or control the record of all medicine dispensed (Paulino,
Thomas and Cooper, 2019). In order to keep record of any type of intervention which has made,
judge on the basis of certain aspects. The British National formulary is responsible for
distribution of document related medication to community and other healthcare staff members.
Patient safety refers to preventing the errors when it comes to their entire care provided by
medical professional. It means that preventing adverse reaction when a person take such
medications. It can happen for variety of reason where patient may not take care about their
safety and security (Carayon and Wooldridge, 2020). They were not taking the medication
according to the instruction of professional. In this way, it may fail to make correct diagnosis,
will change their medication as per requirements. Initially, professional are validated the
prescription and make sure that understanding the overall concept of dispensing medicines.
The pharmacists has performed the significant role which has proven to improve various
result or outcome in regards of patient health condition. Sometimes, it may include patient
safety, improved diseases, drugs therapy management, improve quality of life. WHO has been
developed the conceptual framework in order to build an effective standardized taxonomy for
safety of patient (Galt, Fuji and Shah, 2019). Pharmacist have a crucial system level role in term
of planning and also leading medication safety program or event which initiatives towards health
care improvement. It may be include the risk specific protocol for providing high alert –
medications in order to identify, evaluating high risk processes (Paulino, Thomas and Cooper,
2019). The complexity of medication is that prescribing or delivering process which make it
difficult to give better advantage, effect of pharmacist on adverse result or outcome directly but
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the involvement has been representing the reduce errors. In order to enhance the patient
monitoring across different settings.
As medical professional has delivered the better health care service by using dispending of
medicine. In order to find out the complex nature of medication and its increase errors prone
situation. During prescribing process, it should be increased the errors in the process
approximately 5% to 7% in prescriptions which depending on the setting (Holmström and et.al.,
2019). Moreover, this type of medication errors reports to health care system where they can
easily monitor and analysed current situation. According to report, it has been identified that
16% of actual patient harm and 0.8% resulted in the death or other server harmful condition
(Paulino, Thomas and Cooper, 2019). However, there are various unintended discrepancies in
patient discharged from the hospitals. In this way, it is affecting the 43% of prescription in
primary care (Paulino, Thomas and Cooper, 2019). The problem with medicine is that after
hospital discharge of patient that associated with adverse health consequences.
The research project will describe about the quality improvement event in patient safety
through medication. The project is focused on the dispending medicines within community
pharmacy which mainly assumed as a process for required the highly quality of reliability. The
pharmacy team will be combined with non-technical skills, clinical and technical in which
providing the better quality of medicines. These are becoming safe and effective for patients. The
research estimate that approximately 3.32% of dispensed item may include as an error (Paulino,
Thomas and Cooper, 2019). Although it can be identified the level of accuracy, it could be
assumed to be very high, errors that have developed as serious consequences among patient. The
most of pharmacists are responsible for recognising the patient safety as well as health. The
research project has been developed the system which provide as guard against the errors in
order to reduce their level. The report will discuss about the use of dispending medicines where
how they will support for patient in term of safety. Furthermore, it also facilitate the best quality
of improvement methodology.
Aim
The main aim of this report is “To Analyse ways in which Patient safety can be improved
whilst dispensing medicines.”
Objectives
Main objectives of this report are:
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