CVS misspelling medication

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[Post New]04/25/2011 22:22
Anonymous
I'm sooooooooooo shocked by this. Obviously DH thinks it's no big deal but I'm in nursing school and we know first hand what kind of terrible accidents can happen because of misspelling of medication names.

Is it just me or this is unacceptable?

ps. the misspelling was in one of their ads pushing CVS brand because they were out of some brand name med for INFANTS!
[Post New]04/25/2011 22:27
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:I'm sooooooooooo shocked by this. Obviously DH thinks it's no big deal but I'm in nursing school and we know first hand what kind of terrible accidents can happen because of misspelling of medication names.

Is it just me or this is unacceptable?

ps. the misspelling was in one of their ads pushing CVS brand because they were out of some brand name med for INFANTS!

So this is an over-the-counter med? Given that the label on the bottle requires FDA signoff, I assume it's spelled correctly there, and would worry less about the ad. (If the pharmacy were getting medication names wrong, I'd be very upset.)
[Post New]04/25/2011 22:41
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I'm sooooooooooo shocked by this. Obviously DH thinks it's no big deal but I'm in nursing school and we know first hand what kind of terrible accidents can happen because of misspelling of medication names.

Is it just me or this is unacceptable?

ps. the misspelling was in one of their ads pushing CVS brand because they were out of some brand name med for INFANTS!

So this is an over-the-counter med? Given that the label on the bottle requires FDA signoff, I assume it's spelled correctly there, and would worry less about the ad. (If the pharmacy were getting medication names wrong, I'd be very upset.)


As a nursing student, if their suggested substitute's name doesn't match what's on the counter by the ad the right procedure is to not use that medication at all.

I think it's a big deal.
[Post New]04/25/2011 22:46
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I'm sooooooooooo shocked by this. Obviously DH thinks it's no big deal but I'm in nursing school and we know first hand what kind of terrible accidents can happen because of misspelling of medication names.

Is it just me or this is unacceptable?

ps. the misspelling was in one of their ads pushing CVS brand because they were out of some brand name med for INFANTS!

So this is an over-the-counter med? Given that the label on the bottle requires FDA signoff, I assume it's spelled correctly there, and would worry less about the ad. (If the pharmacy were getting medication names wrong, I'd be very upset.)


As a nursing student, if their suggested substitute's name doesn't match what's on the counter by the ad the right procedure is to not use that medication at all.

I think it's a big deal.

Sorry, I'm confused by this statement.

I also assumed you were talking about a print ad--is this actually a shelf label?
[Post New]04/25/2011 23:10
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I'm sooooooooooo shocked by this. Obviously DH thinks it's no big deal but I'm in nursing school and we know first hand what kind of terrible accidents can happen because of misspelling of medication names.

Is it just me or this is unacceptable?

ps. the misspelling was in one of their ads pushing CVS brand because they were out of some brand name med for INFANTS!

So this is an over-the-counter med? Given that the label on the bottle requires FDA signoff, I assume it's spelled correctly there, and would worry less about the ad. (If the pharmacy were getting medication names wrong, I'd be very upset.)


As a nursing student, if their suggested substitute's name doesn't match what's on the counter by the ad the right procedure is to not use that medication at all.

I think it's a big deal.

Sorry, I'm confused by this statement.

I also assumed you were talking about a print ad--is this actually a shelf label?


It was one of those "SORRY WE'RE OUT OF X, MAY WE SUGGEST CVS X" and X on the ad was misspelled.

I took a pic with my phone, how do I post it here?
[Post New]04/25/2011 23:21
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I'm sooooooooooo shocked by this. Obviously DH thinks it's no big deal but I'm in nursing school and we know first hand what kind of terrible accidents can happen because of misspelling of medication names.

Is it just me or this is unacceptable?

ps. the misspelling was in one of their ads pushing CVS brand because they were out of some brand name med for INFANTS!

So this is an over-the-counter med? Given that the label on the bottle requires FDA signoff, I assume it's spelled correctly there, and would worry less about the ad. (If the pharmacy were getting medication names wrong, I'd be very upset.)


As a nursing student, if their suggested substitute's name doesn't match what's on the counter by the ad the right procedure is to not use that medication at all.

I think it's a big deal.

Sorry, I'm confused by this statement.

I also assumed you were talking about a print ad--is this actually a shelf label?


It was one of those "SORRY WE'RE OUT OF X, MAY WE SUGGEST CVS X" and X on the ad was misspelled.

I took a pic with my phone, how do I post it here?


There:



We should never take from granted the population's knowledge of medication.

A friend of mine lost one of her newborn twins because of medication mix up at the hospital. There's a very recent case in Brazil of a girl who died because instead of getting a bag of physiological solution to dilute her IV meds they injected her with liquid VASELINE just because the color of the bag and labels were the same!!!!!

Such mistakes are unacceptable and the industry has the obligation to apply measures to minimize them.
[Post New]04/25/2011 23:22
Anonymous
Read the newspaper everyday and count the number of misspellings. Good grief, if you feel so outraged by this call the VP in charge of Public Relations and rant to them and then find a lawyer and sue. This is nonsense!
[Post New]04/25/2011 23:25
Anonymous
I'm just not seeing getting upset about the misspelling of a trade name, particularly since the trade name isn't the product that they're trying to sell. If someone comes into the store looking for "Benedryl," they have a very different problem, and the store's misspelling isn't the half of it.
[Post New]04/25/2011 23:25
Anonymous
Is this a farce thread? Seriously people.
[Post New]04/25/2011 23:31
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Is this a farce thread? Seriously people.


Farce? Because it's not your daughter...

[Post New]04/26/2011 05:23
Anonymous
But the concern in the medical community is that the drug will be mistaken for a drug with a name that is close to it, but completely unrelated to the drug's purpose, not that it will be misspelled.

So if the sign read "So sorry, we are out of Benedryl, please try Benzoyl Peroxide!" Yes, OP, I would be VERY, VERY concerned!
[Post New]04/26/2011 10:51
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:But the concern in the medical community is that the drug will be mistaken for a drug with a name that is close to it, but completely unrelated to the drug's purpose, not that it will be misspelled.

So if the sign read "So sorry, we are out of Benedryl, please try Benzoyl Peroxide!" Yes, OP, I would be VERY, VERY concerned!


I know that. The problem is that medication misspelling should not happen PERIOD.

On the case of the little girl in the youtube video the nursing assistant read only one of the bottles and assumed the bottle right besides it was the exact medication and it was not.
Even with labels with correct info mistakes happen. We should not allow the companies to get away with such mistakes. It's our own safety at risk.

It's because of the population being so forgiving and complacent that a few end up suffering.
[Post New]04/26/2011 10:58
cuzimawesome
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Anonymous wrote:But the concern in the medical community is that the drug will be mistaken for a drug with a name that is close to it, but completely unrelated to the drug's purpose, not that it will be misspelled.

So if the sign read "So sorry, we are out of Benedryl, please try Benzoyl Peroxide!" Yes, OP, I would be VERY, VERY concerned!


Exactly. This. I'm an RN and this is such a typical nursing student freak out. People understand what Benadryl is... even if it's spelled "Benedryl". I would be way more concerned if they mixed up two totally different medications. You can mention the mis-spelling to the pharmacy if it really concerns you.
[Post New]04/26/2011 11:05
Anonymous
CVS mixed up my daughter's name on the prescription, put "Jane Smith" instead of "Jane Doe" and because they got the first name right, I didn't even notice that the name was wrong. We went through the drive through and waited. So I discovered this two DAYS later, after she had taken about half of it and totally freaked out. I called them and fired off a massive complaint to the head pharmacist. Yes, I'm stupid that I didn't see the name, and it turned out it was the correct medication, just the wrong name. But it sent me flying and I'll never return there.
[Post New]04/26/2011 11:07
Anonymous
cuzimawesome wrote:
Anonymous wrote:But the concern in the medical community is that the drug will be mistaken for a drug with a name that is close to it, but completely unrelated to the drug's purpose, not that it will be misspelled.

So if the sign read "So sorry, we are out of Benedryl, please try Benzoyl Peroxide!" Yes, OP, I would be VERY, VERY concerned!


Exactly. This. I'm an RN and this is such a typical nursing student freak out. People understand what Benadryl is... even if it's spelled "Benedryl". I would be way more concerned if they mixed up two totally different medications. You can mention the mis-spelling to the pharmacy if it really concerns you.


I rather suspect that CVS has an advertising special department that writes the ads and buys the space for their ads and advertised specials and that the pharmaceutical (sp?) department has absolutely no responsibility for this grievous ad that has send OP, nursing student, and RN in a tailspin.
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