PRP Insights

A practitioner’s signature is an important component of a prescription that assists registrants in determining the authenticity of a prescription. With electronic prescribing software becoming more commonplace, registrants are seeing an increase in electronically generated prescriptions and oftentimes, these are signed with electronic signatures. As registrants may be more accustomed to receiving prescriptions that are signed pen-to-paper, there have been some questions around the acceptability of this practice. In this article, we hope to provide some clarity on the requirements around electronic signatures.

During Pharmacy Practice Reviews, Compliance Officers have come across a number of pharmacies that have not reported changes to the layout of their pharmacies after undergoing renovation. The College requires that the current layout of a pharmacy be consistent with the pharmacy diagram that the College has on record.

In our Practice Review Program, Compliance Officers have come across questions from pharmacists regarding documentation requirements for emergency prescription refills (“emergency supplies”).

Did you know the College has conducted over 650 pharmacy reviews and 2100 Pharmacy Professionals Reviews in community practice since the Practice Review Program launched? As Compliance Officers continue to conduct practice reviews at community pharmacies, the College has received numerous questions regarding how to best prepare.  

The Practice Review Program’s Pharmacy Professionals Review is grounded upon Board-approved focus areas that were identified as having the most impact on patient safety.  In previous articles, we discussed the topics of patient ID verification, profile check, and counselling.  The final focus area, documentation, ties everything together by leaving a written record of what has been done and identifies the registrant responsible for each step.

The Practice Review Program’s Pharmacy Professionals Review is grounded upon Board-approved focus areas that were identified as having the most impact on patient safety. Counseling is one focus area in which pharmacists can use their clinical pharmacy knowledge to directly increase the probability of positive therapeutic outcomes

The Practice Review Program’s Pharmacy Professionals Review is grounded upon Board-approved focus areas that were identified as having the most impact on patient safety.  One such focus area is the Profile Check, which is a fundamental role pharmacists play within the healthcare team as medication experts.

The Practice Review Program’s Pharmacy Professionals Review is based on Board-approved focus areas that were identified as having the most impact on patient safety.  The first of these focus areas is Patient Identification Verification, which is the very first step to providing pharmacy care.