Unit dose packaging is the new age of pharmacy packaging systems for medication. The client directory of a pharmacy can grow because of unit dose packaging. The bar code systems of unit dose packaging can increase the speed and accuracy of pharmacy inventory systems. Unit dose packaging is mostly for medication, but unit dose packaging can be used for other kinds of pharmacy products as well.
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Unit dose packaging can be used by the rxinsider, but also by doctors and other medical staff who prescribe medication and apply medication. For example, a long term care facility for the elderly often has nurses and medical staff to give medication to the patients for them. Unit dose packaging can help the systems at a long term care facility to be more accurate and supply medication at a quicker pace. How can unit dose packaging do that? Well, let's take an example without unit dose packaging. A nurse has ten patients under her care. Several patients need medication every four hours and other long term care patients need medication at other hourly dosages. The pharmacy and rxinsider crew has provided the medication and the long term care nurse on duty has to read the instructions of each medication every time the long term care nurse goes to each patient to give them their medication. Can you imagine the time it would take to read the instructions and dosage and double-check the instructions and dosage and then measure out the medication and double-check the measurement for each long term care patient under that nurse's care. Administering medication would take up the long term care nurse's time!
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With unit dose packaging a nurse or rxinsider could have a system of measuring medication for several medi dose instances at one time. That unit dose packaging would be assigned to that patient and then the nurse can have an alarm or a scheduled system of administering the medication for each patient. Each patient would have a box of unit dose packaging full of the exact medi dose prescribed. The long term care nurse on duty would just have to double check that the nurse had the correct unit dose packaging assigned to the patient and then the medication would be administered to the long term care patient. A nurse could then have more patients assigned to the long term care nurse on duty and also complete other long term care duties besides focusing all of their time on the medication administration. Unit dose packaging simplifies the long term care facility's system of administering medication.
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In this situation the rxinsider's job is more organized of a system in measuring out the medi dose for each patient or providing the unit dose packaging and medication for the long term care nurse to measure out several medi dose packaging of medication for each patient. The unit dose packaging keeps the medication sanitary and fresh so that the medication is as effective as when it left the doors of the pharmacy.
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Unit dose packaging helps in other ways and other places. A long term care facility is only one example of how unit dose packaging can make a system that works, work even more effectively and economically.
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In this situation the rxinsider's job is more organized of a system in measuring out the medi dose for each patient or providing the unit dose packaging and medication for the long.... Learn more at Unit Dose Packaging and systems
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