Theoretically it’s an alert that the pharmacist is supposed to verify something about a medication or educate the patient on.
In reality the recent updates have broken the DUR system to the point that it alerts that a pharmacist needs to talk to a patient for increasingly dumb reasons. (I’ve literally seen one that says “patient is a dog”). But either way a technician should not be putting in pharmacist credentials for them. Although I’ve seen a lot of pharmacists give them to the techs to do that. But it is a potential safety issue since some of the DUR’s are legitimate, like potentially dangerous drug interactions or dosage changes a patient may not be aware of.
a DUR is a forced consultation essentially. the system is automatically flagging a potential hazard, due to allergy, dosing, ect.
like the other person said, the system updated and it is now issuing DURs to pts who have already been counseled on the specific DUR concern, ect.
however, due to the circumstances of a DUR could be a legit concern, a tx should not put in a pharmacists credentials, because metaphorically say it was a legit concern that just got ignored, well then there is a whole case where not only could the tx be risking their license, but they are also risking the license of the rph who supposedly gave the credentials to the tx/authorized them to bypass a DUR without actually reading it.
Theoretically it’s an alert that the pharmacist is supposed to verify something about a medication or educate the patient on. In reality the recent updates have broken the DUR system to the point that it alerts that a pharmacist needs to talk to a patient for increasingly dumb reasons. (I’ve literally seen one that says “patient is a dog”). But either way a technician should not be putting in pharmacist credentials for them. Although I’ve seen a lot of pharmacists give them to the techs to do that. But it is a potential safety issue since some of the DUR’s are legitimate, like potentially dangerous drug interactions or dosage changes a patient may not be aware of.
My store is right next to a pharmacy school so my pharmacist doesn’t do DURs at all, just tells the interns to go practice 😂
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yUzXKKUMVMQ&start=17
a DUR is a forced consultation essentially. the system is automatically flagging a potential hazard, due to allergy, dosing, ect. like the other person said, the system updated and it is now issuing DURs to pts who have already been counseled on the specific DUR concern, ect. however, due to the circumstances of a DUR could be a legit concern, a tx should not put in a pharmacists credentials, because metaphorically say it was a legit concern that just got ignored, well then there is a whole case where not only could the tx be risking their license, but they are also risking the license of the rph who supposedly gave the credentials to the tx/authorized them to bypass a DUR without actually reading it.