RIFT VALLEY UNIVERSITY CHIRO

CAMPUS

DEPARTMENT OF PHARMACY 2013 batch.

Assignment of Practice Auditable Pharmaceutical
Transactions and Services.
Individual assignment.

Submitted By Id/No

Jemal yuye mohammed 0041/2013

Submitted To Instructors Ashebir . M (B.Pharm)

Date 27/10/2014

Chiro, Ethiopia
1. Write the Consequences of Traditional practice of Pharmacy(2pts)

• Wastage-high wastage due to expiry and theft

• Difficult situation to take physical inventory
• Inefficient budget utilization
• Irrational use of medicines
• Low patient satisfaction
• Low satisfaction of professionals
• Low patient knowledge on correct dosage

2. Write the best arrangement of dispensing flow found to be very effective by

APTS(4pts)

Entrance.
 Evaluation and biller.
 Prescription evaluators
 Cashiers.
 Billing
 Cash collection.
 Drug use counselors.
 Counseling counters.

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3. Mention at least Six principles that comes with APTS(4pts)

1. Establishment of new chronic care pharmacy unit for patients with chronic illnesses
(Diabetes, hypertension, epilepsy and asthma).
2. Installation of Electronic Dispensing Tool (EDT) and Initiation of real-time
dispensing services to ART patients
3. Rearrangement of OPD dispensing pharmacy to facilitate services and transaction
tracking
4. Coding of the bin locations and assignment of owners per location at the dispensary
5.Establishment of a drug information unit furnished with office supplies,
computer, printer, and with broadband internet access for provision of drug
information
services to health care providers and patients.
6.Adapting and printing different forms (tools) to track information on pharmaceutical
transactions and services and to facilitate auditing
4. Write the importance of Coding Pharmaceuticals in APTS(4pts)
Price controlling
To simplify health insurance implementation and settlement.
To simplify software development and use.
To uniquely identify products during ADR and ADE.
To calculate some WHO indicators for example % of injectable from the
other dosage forms can be calculated simply by selecting codes from 30
to39 as a nominator and all other drug as denominator X 100.
Auditing of pharmaceuticals specially by non health professional

5. Write the Five main Pillars of APTS (4pts)

a. The Efficient Budget Utilization
b. Improved Customer Satisfaction
c. Reliable Information
d. Effective Workforce Deployment & Development
e. Transparent and Accountable Transactions

6. Write the Fundamental objective of APTS concerning Auditing(3pts)

The implementation of APTS facilitates the practice of effective auditing of
transactions and services in health facilities.
Continuous auditing improves quality of the service being rendered
Auditing should be for reward not merely for punishment

7. What are important documents for Auditing to Cutoff before conducting product
audit at the dispensaries(3pts)
Check books
Purchases involves
Sales receipts
Journal vouchers
Bank statement
Tax returns
Petty cash records and inventory records are in ordered,
8. Write Seven types of Drug Therapy Problem finding by prescription
Evaluators(3pts)
Unnecessary drug therapy.
Needs additional drug.
Ineffective drug.
Dose too low.
Adverse drug reaction.
Noncompliance.
Dose too high.

9. Write the responsibility and accountability of Binowners in Dispensary(3 pts)

 Receives medicines issued from the store

 Labels the codes, selling prices and/or retail prices on each package

 Shelves the medicines into the bin location

 Follows the expiry dates of drugs in each bins assigned to him/her

 Provides all the necessary information required to complete Model 20/1

 Follow the movement of stocks (fast moving, slow moving, dead stock, near expiry,
etc…) and report to head of the dispensing unit

Control the inventory from theft, pilferage and other losses.

The End !!!!!!.