When you have been given the wrong medication, there are a number of ways you could react. You may need further treatment to correct the effects, or you may need hospitalization. But after you recover and start to pursue your prescription drug injury case, you may wonder: how is the pharmacy responding to the mistake?

The American Society of Hospital Pharmacists has released a study outlining what all nurses, doctors, and pharmacists should do when a medication error occurs.Here are just a few things the ASHP recommends the at-fault party should do after a harmful prescription drug mistake:

• Provide any necessary corrective treatment, including rehabilitative and supportive therapy
• Document the error, including the specific circumstances and the reason the error occurred, as soon as possible.
• Warn physicians, nurses, and pharmacy managers if the error was caused by a potentially unknown factor, such as an interaction with another drug.
• Investigate the incident thoroughly, including determining the cause, location, persons involved, details of the case and any other pertinent information. how the incident occurred, and who was involved. All-important evidence, such as patient labels or drug packaging, should be kept for examination.
• Review of the incident should fall to the superiors: the board or the hospital or pharmacy to determine the exact cause of the accident and what further steps should be taken to correct it.
• Identify The staff members who were involved in the error should meet with the investigation team to learn how best to prevent the error in the future, including implementing a new system or fixing a breakdown in the current procedures. 
• Report all medication errors to a national monitoring program so that pharmacists, physicians, nurses, and patients can all benefit from the experience of the error and avoid a similar error in the future. 

Our pharmacy error injury lawyersrealize that many hospitals and pharmacies will not change their methods unless something is at stake. By pursuing a case against the person who caused your injury, you can get compensation for your suffering and prevent the accident from happening again.

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