State to look closer at compounding pharmacies
It doesn’t seem to matter what bureaucracy you look at… FDA… FAA… dept of AG… BOP… it seems that it always take mounting tomb stones to get them to get off their asses and shake their complacency.
This same BOP – OHIO – didn’t do anything about some sort of tech certification until a young 2 y/o died from IV error by a technician
http://ismp.org/newsletters/acutecare/articles/20091203.asp
Ohio governor signs ‘Emily’s Law’ forcing standards for pharmacy technicians
This law was… in “bureaucratic time” … passed and signed into law in a “heartbeat”
Should these bureaucrats be held complicit in the negative outcomes their failure to properly do their job and their assigned task to protect the public’s health and safety…
It was reported that both the hospital and the BOP where the 2 y/o died did an investigation and “cleared” the procedures at the hospital…yet.. it was also reported that after the dust had settled… the hospital pharmacy REVAMPED their entire procedure …so that it would never happen again…
I have seen nothing …where the hospital (permit holder) or the PIC suffered any consequences from the BOP… unlike the Pharmacist on duty at the time of the accident… had his license REVOKED – meaning he had no chance of ever being licensed again and he was charged and convicted of MANSLAUGHTER and ended up serving SIX MONTHS in jail/prison.
The question has to be asked… why do bureaucrats seem to only work in hindsight and is unable to be proactive to how the practice is changing and has no foresight?
Filed under: General Problems
In college, I began working as a pharmacy technician. Learning about the CPHT, I decided it was worthless to pursue in the Indy store I was at. Moving and getting another job at a corporation, I was forced to take a class and then take the CPhT test. This class was a huge waste of time, and was filled with people who had no idea what they were doing. Most of them barely passed, but pass they did. And I wouldn’t want a single one of them in my pharmacy. They do know more now than they did at least. The CPhT is a joke.
Sadly, nothing much has changed in Ohio except technicians must now take a standardized test for the CPhT designation. A CPhT designation doesn’t mean a technician is qualified to handle chemotherapy medications or even simple IV admixtures. The technician will only be as good as the in-house training provided. Another case of sugar-coating the real problem.