This document discusses good dispensing practices for pharmacists. It covers interpreting prescriptions, packaging and labeling medications, and ensuring quality control. Efficient management is key, such as prepackaging common drugs and organizing workflow. Accuracy is prioritized over speed. Packaging must preserve drug stability and quality using appropriate materials like glass or plastic. Labels must clearly provide dosing instructions and patient information. Auxiliary labels may provide additional guidance. Prepackaging multi-dose therapies ensures accurate dosing and simplifies dispensing of complex regimens. Quality checks are necessary when repackaging to maintain expiration dates and product quality.

1. ENSURING GOOD
DISPENSING PRACTICES
PRESENTED TO : MA’AM
MARIA
PRESENTED BY : SAMAWIA
IQBAL

2. CONTENTS
Introduction
Dispensing
 Efficient management in
dispensing
Techniques for quality
assurance
Packaging and labeling
Containers for packaging
Labels and their importance
Courses of therapy

3. INTRODUCTION
Ensures that right drug in the right dosage
form indicated for the patients condition
is delivered to the right patient in the
prescribed dosage and quantity with clear
instructions and in a package that
maintains the potency and stability of
drug.

4. DISPENSING
It is an important part of pharmacy, in
which the pharmacist interprets the
physician’s requirement on the
prescription and accordingly supplies
for medicines for the treatment
therapies.

5. CONT…
This usually involves interpreting a written
prescription.
This however, requires a system to
promote a balanced and accurate
dispensing of medicines…

7. PROMOTING EFFICIENT
MANAGEMENT IN DISPENCING
In dispensing accuracy is more
important than speed!
 Make priority agreement with the
physician to prescribe only those
drugs that are available at the
pharmacy.
Organizing patient flow.
Prepackage and label commonly
drugs to save time.

8. CONT…
Organize the work so that more than one
person is involved in the dispensing of
one prescription.

9. TECHNIQUES FOR QUALITY
ASSURANCE
Requiring that all staff works according
to the mentioned SOP’s.
Maintaining records of issued drugs.
Schedule worker shifts.
Committees to identify and resolve
problems
Regular inspection and supportive
supervision can improve dispensing.

10. PACKAGING AND LABELING
OF DISPENSED MEDICINES
Packaging is the science of enclosing or
protecting products for distribution,
storage and use!
The prescription container label may be
the only source of instruction for the
patient on how to take their medicine!

11. CONTAINERS FOR DISPENSED
MEDICINE
The main purpose of packaging and
containers is to preserve the quality of
medicine up to the use.
The containers should not affect the
quality of drug.
The nature and color of the container
should match the international standards.
They should protect the product from
harmful effects of environment or
microbes.

12. CONT…
They should protect the loss of product
from spillage, leakage or permeation.
The price of containers should not be so
high.

14. TYPES OF MATERIALS
Following types of materials are used for
making containers for dispensing
medicines;
1.Glass
2.Metal
3.Plastic.

15. CONT…
Label:
label should provide the patient with
all the necessary information for
appropriate use of medicines.
Should compromise of;
General labeling instructions
Cautionary and advisory label
Special instructions for different
types of medicines.

16. INFORMATION ON LABEL
Information provided on the label
should be;
Clear
Accurate
Legible
Adequate
Relevent
Intelligible.

17. IMPORTANCE OF LABELING
Provide information about the
content and nature of the
preparation.
Inform about the dose regimen.
Insures appropriate and safe use of
drugs.
To distinguish the product from
competitors.
Legal instructions.

18. GENERAL REUIREMENTS
General requirements for the labeling
of dispensed medicines include;
Name of preparation
The quantity
Instructions for patients
Patient name
Date of dispensing
Address of the pharmacy.

20. AUXILIARY/ CAUTIONARY
LABELS
An auxiliary label (also
called cautionary and advisory
label or prescription drug warning
label) is a label added on to a dispensed
medication package by a pharmacist in
addition to the usual prescription label.
These labels are intended to provide
supplementary information regarding safe
administration, use, and storage of the
medication.

22. COURSE OF THERAPY
PREPACKAGING :
Pharmaceutical repackaging, often
referred to as prepackaged
medications, is the process
of packaging pharmaceuticals in the
pill sizes that a physician would
typically write a prescription for.
Many retail pharmacies purchase
over the counter tablets and syrups
in bulk and prepackage them.

23. BENEFITS OF COURSE OF
THERAPY PREPACKAGING
Safe, easy and faster distribution of
medicines.
Improved credibility among users.
Accurate and efficient prescribing by all
the health workers.
Simplified dispensing for multi drug
therapy.
Easy and accurate recording of
inventory.

24. IMPORTANCE OF CONTROLS IN
PREPACKAGING
Since it’s a manufacturing process so it
should be done under controlled
conditions;
One kind and strength of drug
prepacked at one time in one work
area.
The pre packer should have correct
labels and they should correspond
with the containers.
Rechecking of the product and record

25. PRECAUTIONS AND QUALITY
CHECKS
Prepackaging is a repackaging process
and re packer should insure the
labeling and quality.
Prepackaged drug may compromise
the manufacturers expiry date or an
expiry date of six month.
The quality must be checked before
and after repackaging.
The amount to be prepackaged
depends on the rate and climatic

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