subject: Unit Dose Packaging [print this page] Unit dose packaging comes in all shapes, sizes, and colors. Unit dose packaging is mainly used in the pharmacy industry. Unit dose packaging can be prepared by the manufacturers of the unit dose packaging, stocking the unit dose packaging with the medication product ready to go for sale and customer use. Or, unit dose packaging can be provided to the pharmacy and then filled with medication and sealed and prepared for the customer by the rxinsider. Whatever packaging system your pharmacy chooses will probably be different for each medication and each product line.
Unit dose packaging can be used by a medication manufacturer. In this case the unit dose packaging will be used more in a way to market to the consumer of the medication. For example baby Tylenol could be packaged in unit dose packaging individual spoons or syringes that have the measurement of the Tylenol that the certain age of a baby needs. This type of unit dose packaging makes the consumer happy because the mother doesn't have to measure out the Tylenol. In fact it's really easy for the mother or baby's caregiver to simply take one of the unit dose packaging units in her purse, rather than packing the whole Tylenol bottle with a baggy of separately purchased syringes or spoons. Unit dose packaging often sells to the customer's convenience needs. This is an example with the manufacturer of a medication uses unit dose packaging and the unit dose packaging with the medication can be purchased by the consumer from the shelf.
The other example of unit dose packaging systems where the unit dose packaging shells are manufactured and then shipped to the pharmacy where the rxinsider prepares the actual unit dose of medication and completes the unit dose packaging. This example would take place with unit dose packaging when a medication dosage would have to be specified by a doctor's prescription rather than being a medication that has a general dosage for age and weight.
Because of the convenience of unit dose packaging the client directory of a pharmacy could increase due to happy customers. But, unit dose packaging can also add to the client directory of the pharmacy by creating more opportunities to serve more customers. Unit dose packaging can simplify a pharmacy system of inventory. Unit dose packaging can also extend the expiration life of medication. So, with more medication on the shelves available and more order in the inventory system of the pharmacy, the client directory of a pharmacy grows to serve more customers who are happy with the quick response of medication fillings.
The pharmacy at a hospital can benefit from unit dose packaging. A long term care facility pharmacy can benefit from unit dose packaging. A drive-thru pharmacy can benefit from unit dose packaging. Where-ever there is a pharmacy, unit dose packaging can improve productivity and inventory systems. Where-ever there is a rxinsider unit dose packaging makes the life and job of the rxinsider simpler.
There are few packaging systems that could put a claim to so much that unit dose packaging can do for both the seller and the purchaser.
