Sunday, April 11, 2010

Post-dating scripts?

I know that my blog's pretty new and there aren't many (if any) readers out there - hopefully, that will change.

But - I have a question for any pharmacists out there.

Scenario: Patient drops off three C-II scripts, one to be filled today and two others to be put on hold. (Assume, obviously, that you're in a state in which the scripts DON'T expire after 7 days - ay yi yi). But, they're post-dated. Your tech didn't know the lay of the land and took them anyway, types in the one for today and sticks the other two in the "to be profiled" box. Now, your Rotating Intern asks you what you want her to do with them, since they're, well, illegal.

[Side note for any MDs/soon-to-be MDs/NPs/anyone who will be prescribing anything: please don't post-date C-II Rxs. This is illegal. What you can do is date it with TODAY's date and write "Do not fill until #/#/##." We'll follow it, I promise.]

So, Pharm.D/RPh, do you:

a) Tell your RI to profile them anyway
b) Tell your RI to leave them in the "to be profiled" box, because while you certainly don't condone that, the pharmacy manager would tell you to pick choice a) and therefore, she can deal with it on her shift
c) Tell your RI to call up the patient and give her the prescriptions back, because you don't want them in the pharmacy at all
d) Call up the patient the prescriptions are illegal and you're destroying them, and he/she needs to get new ones

Okay, so d) might be a little extreme. But I've had pharmacists to tell me to do a), b), or c). So - what would you do?

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