Safe Medication Tips from the Dosher Pharmacy Team
The Pharmacy Department at Dosher Memorial Hospital is one of the most important groups involved with your patient care, whom you may never meet.
While you may not know our pharmacy team, it is their job to know you, to be aware of your health conditions, monitor your drug therapies, and understand how medications you're prescribed may interact with others that you are taking.
Here are some tips for using your medications safely while you are in the hospital:
Tell your doctor and pharmacist all the medicines you take.o Bring a medicine list with the names of:
Medicines prescribed by your health care providers with doses and instructions.
Medicines you bought at a drug or grocery store (like medicines for pain or a cold).
Vitamins, herbs, and nutritional supplements.
Tell your doctor and pharmacist what you can't take.
o Your medicine list should also include:
Medicines that you should not take (because of allergies or other problems).
Other allergies you have (to things like peanuts, shellfish, or latex).
Watch out for:
o Any changes in your medicine when you get your medicines each day, like a different color or shape.
o Any reactions or side effects that the doctor, nurse, or pharmacist didn't tell you about.
Ask your doctor, nurse, or pharmacist:
o The name of any medicine you are given or asked to take.
o About anything that you don't understand or that doesn't seem right.
o For information about your medicines in writing.
If you have any questions about your medicine, you can call and talk to a pharmacist at 910-457-3837.
(Please note that we are a hospital pharmacy, not a retail pharmacy. We cannot fill prescriptions written by healthcare providers in the community.)
L - R: Patti Motley, Pharmacy Tech, Lisa Narron, Pharmacist, Pharmacy Director, Chris Cantrell, Pharmacy Tech, Fred Lindstrom, Pharmacist, Deidra Gilley, PharmD, Nin Patel, Pharmacy Tech