There are many roles that the Pharmacy Technician has to help clean up their environment equally protecting the environments of others. Part of the Pharmacy Tech’s involvement in greening environments is to ask their manager for manufacturer approved recycling bins appropriate to their area. Consequently, this would prevent any broken medical materials -such as sharps- ability to harm you or your coworkers. Moreover, when it comes to pharmaceutical waste, using the appropriate channels of communication for outdated medicine chosen for disposal properly in an incinerator. As a Pharmacy Technician, we may request that our equipment stays maintained regularly and examined to see if it is outdated; it may possibly become exchanged with better, more efficient …show more content…
The process of an electronic prescription is like a handwritten one, however; the pharmacy receives them at a faster rate. As a result, the patients won’t wait too long for their medicine; nor bring the prescription with them – this protects the prescriber as patients may write in their own amount upon a prescription. Moreover, the same information on a handwritten prescription exists in an electronic form: their name, DEA number, date of order, the medication name; dose, strength, route of administration, duration of therapy, patient name. As well as an electronic signature to ensure where it came from; perhaps a verification code to ensure that the prescription arrived. Also, the signature codes are much simpler to translate as they are not hand written making them effortless to read. Thus, all these measures protect PHI, the pharmacy as well as the prescriber from fraud, misinformation, and loss of patients. Hence, lowering the employee workload, increasing efficiency and safety; these are just some of the benefits of a paperless prescribing