Pharmacy
For D.Pharm, B.Pharm, pharmacy assistant
The hospital pharmacy: the cash session, billing prescriptions, returns, medicine orders from the wards, and keeping the pharmacy's stock: deliveries, expiry and transfers.
What you'll learn
4 units, in the order the work is learned on the floor. Each task is shown on the real screens, then practised.
Unit 1Getting started7 tasks
- Open your cash session
- Bill the next prescription in the queue
- Bill a prescription at the pharmacy
- Add a recent prescription to the bill
- Hold a bill and come back to it
- Take back medicines at the counter
- Close your cash session
Unit 2The pharmacy's day3 tasks
- Check the pharmacy's day
- Reprint a recent pharmacy bill
- Record a sales return
Unit 3Medicine orders from the wards2 tasks
- Record a verbal or telephone order
- Check if a verbal order is approved
Unit 4Pharmacy stock9 tasks
- Check stock and where it's kept
- Check an item's batches and history
- Act on low-stock and expiry alerts
- Move stock that's about to expire
- Raise a store request by hand
- Receive a supplier's delivery (GRN)
- Put received stock away
- Transfer stock to another store
- Return goods to a supplier
Putting it together
Record returns to suppliers
Four return notes are waiting. Record each return against the right supplier, invoice and goods received note.
From: Return note · 4 records
An allergy, a held bill and a short drawer
A prescription the patient may react to, a customer who can't pay yet, and cash that doesn't add up at closing.
7 scenes · 3 decisions
How you'll learn
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Your Pharmacy certificate
Pass the assessment and claim it on the spot: graded O, A+ or A, with a number and a QR code an employer can check online.
Questions
How do I enrol?
Choose Enrol now, create your HospAux account (or sign in), and pay online. The course opens straight away, for six months.
Does my institute pay?
If you study in an institute's batch, join it with the code your teacher gives you. Your institute may have its own rate for this course, or pay for it.
Do I need a teacher?
No. You learn, practise, take the assessment and earn the certificate on your own.
What happens after six months?
Your progress and your certificate stay with your account. Renew any time to carry on; the new months follow on.