Upon admission, a medication history is obtained by an RN. If the patient is unable to provide the history at that time it can be done a number of ways: family interview, written patient med list, rx vials, recent H&P, transfer records, recent discharge med list, and/or retail pharmacy list. The pharmacist uses a program on the computer to pull up this gathered information to evaluate it for completeness and may interview the patient themselves. There is only one pharmacist responsible for med-rec therefore many patient
Upon admission, a medication history is obtained by an RN. If the patient is unable to provide the history at that time it can be done a number of ways: family interview, written patient med list, rx vials, recent H&P, transfer records, recent discharge med list, and/or retail pharmacy list. The pharmacist uses a program on the computer to pull up this gathered information to evaluate it for completeness and may interview the patient themselves. There is only one pharmacist responsible for med-rec therefore many patient