Hospital ERP for Pharmacists
For D.Pharm, B.Pharm, Pharm.D, pharmacy assistant
The hospital pharmacy: the cash session, billing prescriptions, returns, medicine orders from the wards, keeping the pharmacy's stock (deliveries, expiry, transfers, reorder levels and counts), and clinical pharmacy on the ward: the patient's orders, medications and results.
What you'll learn
The units follow the order the work is learned on the floor. Each task is shown on the real screens, then practised.
Unit 1Getting started
- 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 day
- Check the pharmacy's day
- Reprint a recent pharmacy bill
- Record a sales return
Unit 3Medicine orders from the wards
- Record a verbal or telephone order
- Check if a verbal order is approved
Unit 4Pharmacy stock
- 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
Unit 5Reorder levels and stock counts
- Check what your store needs today
- Set an item's minimum and maximum in a store
- Plan a refill and raise store requests
- Correct stock after a count
Unit 6Clinical pharmacy on the ward
- See a patient's orders
- Reconcile a patient's medications
- Review lab and imaging results
Unit 7Your own HR
- Clock in and out of your shift
- Check an employee's attendance
- Request an attendance correction
- Apply for leave
- Request a shift change
- Request overtime
Where it fits your syllabus
Each unit goes with a paper colleges already teach. Take it in the semester the paper is taught, so students practise on the hospital ERP what they study in class. Syllabi differ between universities: each programme here follows the one named. If yours is different, tell us and we'll map it.
D.PharmPCI ER-2020 (Kerala DME the same)
- Year 2Community Pharmacy & Management (ER20-22): prescriptions, day book and cash book, inventory, pharmacy softwareUnits 1, 2, 4, 5
- Year 2Hospital & Clinical Pharmacy (ER20-25): supply chain and inventory, drug distribution, pharmacy software, clinical pharmacyUnits 3, 4, 5, 6
- Year 2Biochemistry & Clinical Pathology (ER20-23): interpreting lab resultsUnit 6
B.PharmPCI
- Semester IIComputer Applications in Pharmacy (BP205T, BP210P)Units 1, 2
- Semester VIIPharmacy Practice (BP703T): drug distribution, store management and inventory control, clinical pharmacyUnits 1, 3, 4, 5, 6
Pharm.DPCI (2008)
- Year 2Community Pharmacy (2.5): prescriptions, inventory controlUnits 1, 2, 4, 5
- Year 4Hospital Pharmacy (4.2): procurement, inventory control, drug distributionUnits 3, 4, 5
- Year 4Clinical Pharmacy (4.3): medication chart review, medication historyUnit 6
Practical pack for D.Pharm, Year 2: Community Pharmacy and Hospital & Clinical Pharmacy practicals (pharmacy software). A 12-hour plan, and a skills checklist for each student, printed from your batch.
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
Enter the day's stock transfers
The wards' transfer slips came with the morning's stock. Enter each transfer.
From: Stock transfer slip · 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
Stock day: a delivery and expiring medicines
A supplier's delivery comes with a short-dated batch and damaged strips, while expiry alerts are piling up.
8 scenes · 3 decisions
A phone order at night, and a return the next day
A ward asks for a medicine on a doctor's verbal order, the dose looks wrong, and a patient brings medicines back.
7 scenes · 2 decisions
An H1 antibiotic without a valid prescription
A man asks for an antibiotic for his wife, showing a photo of a three-week-old prescription from another clinic.
5 scenes · 2 decisions
Insulin runs out on a Sunday
A ward asks for insulin glargine pens and the pharmacy has none: its reorder level was set far below what's used.
7 scenes · 2 decisions
How you'll learn
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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 batch code your college or institute 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.