Over the last decade, many medical cases, such as the Bristol and Shipman Inquiry, demonstrates failure of doctors to act in competence and performance in order to achieve the best outcome for patients. (Pharmacyregulation.org, 2013). Although these cases principally concern the medical profession they have resulted in the mobilization of many healthcare professional regulatory bodies in the United Kingdom in order to review the principles behind competence and fit to practice. This necessity for evidence and re-examination of good practice of healthcare providers resulted in the release of White Paper ‘Trust, Assurance and Safety-The Regulation of Health Professionals in the 21st Century (Schafheutle et al, 2010). This paper concerns health professionals, including pharmacist, and aims to establish a system of regulations that will ensure the capability of pharmacist to act in best concern of the patient and guarantee their capability to do so. The white paper outlines the need for pharmacists to meet and maintain their standards in order to remain registered. This essay concerns itself with the idea of revalidation of professional pharmacists and their qualifications and how largely this idea is informed by ethical considerations.
Revalidation is defined from the General Pharmaceutical council as the “The process by which assurance of continuing fitness to practice of registrants is provided and in a way which is aimed primarily at supporting and enhancing professional practice’’ (Pharmacyregulation.org, 2013).In other words Revalidation means the renewal of pharmacist’s original registration through the supplementation of evidence that they are still capable to work effectively, up to date and in accordance to ethic...
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Dr. John Abramson’s book Overdosed America debunks the myths about the excellence of American medicine. Abramson backs up this claim by closely examining research about medicine, closely examining the unpublished details submitted by drug manufacturers to the FDA, and discovering that the unpublished data does not coincide with the claims made about the safety and effectiveness of commonly used medicines. Abramsons purpose is to point out the flaws of the pharmaceutical industry in order to warn the readers about the credibility of the drugs they are buying. Given the critical yet technical language of the book, Abramson is writing to an audience that may include academic physicians as well as those who want to learn about the corruption of the pharmaceutical industry.
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This assignment will discuss the professional, legal and ethical issues related to the self-use of medication by nurses. It will also explore the importance of reporting this misconduct by both professionals in the scenario and how they might do so. The self-use of medication by nurses is not allowed or justifiable according to the guidance provided to nurses by An Bord Altranais (ABA 2007). It will also be evident throughout this assignment the need for Jack to report Linda’s self-use of the medication or urge Linda to do so regardless of the consequences it may present to both him and Linda as according to Nurses and Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI 2013), nurses can now be held responsible for not taking action. This is because delivering the greatest level of care to a patient is an essential role of a nurse and the main focus of the nurse’s work should be on caring for that patient (ABA 2010). There is also an ethical duty upon both nurses to report the misconduct according to the four ethical principles; Beneficence, non-maleficence, justice and autonomy (Edwards 2009).
This service is experienced, documented, evaluated and paid for as Pharmaceutical Care. Pharmaceutical Care consists of a philosophy of practice, patient care process as well as a patient management system. Pharmaceutical Care has common integrated vocabulary consistent with other patient care practices such as medicine, dentistry and nursing. Philosophy of pharmaceutical care consists of a description of the social need for the practice, a concise and clear statement of individual practitioner responsibilities to meet this social need, the expectation to be patient-centered and the requirement to function within the caring paradigm. This philosophy of practice is expected and practiced by all health care professionals.
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Responsibility and accountability become important when medical staff gives or doses patients with medication. The chance for making a medication error presents itself at all times. Those passing medications must follow established policies and procedures developed and laid forth by t...
The American Pharmacists Association’s Code of Ethics for Pharmacists is the ethics code listed on the Raabe College of Pharmacy website. This is also the code that I have chosen to specifically examine, analyze, and evaluate as well as apply to a relevant case. This ethical code, at first glance, seems rather strong. It seems to cover most aspect of practice in the profession of pharmacy. The code of ethics also appears to have had much thought in develop, in regards to concepts and theories of ethics.
This controversy surrounds pharmaceutical marketing and the influence that big pharma imposes on doctors and other health professionals through drug representatives. As Dale Archer, who
The importance of the becoming a pharmacist should not be about what the career can give a person in monetary value or the amount of accolades one receives. Instead, the career should be about saving and improving human lives and serving the public. Pharmacists keep people healthy, make them feel better, and try to help the public live longer and happier lives as long as possible. From small infant children to the elderly, everyone needs pharmaceutical care. Sometimes it can be a matter of life and death if medication is not available to the public. Pharmacy as a career would be a wise decision if a person could withstand the amount of education the profession entails.
I pleased to apply to the PharmD program as the program is one area that corresponds to my career dreams. Being part of this program gives one the opportunity to gain an excellent experience in working and collaborating with various health care providers in the ward. But more importantly, it facilitates a practical environment in dealing more closely with patients. Hence, it helps to provide the ultimate health care services to patients. Also, it permits me to carry on gaining different knowledge, skills, and values in addition to those I have already developed during my undergraduate studies. My interest in being a clinical pharmacist was first aroused during my SPEP rotation in the hospital setting where I was really impressed with the role of clinical pharmacists who provide a consistent process of patient care with healthcare teams to maintain the appropriateness, effectiveness and safety of the medication use. Unlike a pharmacist, a clinical pharmacist has a more diversified responsibilities and closeness to direct patient care. Moreover, provides
In 1998 the (AphA) adopted policies recognizing a pharmacist’s right to refuse dispensing medications based on personal belief. However, if the pharmacist refuses they still have duty to the patient to refer them to another pharmacist. The dilemma is now whether to refer or not. Potential ramifications of not referring are employment termination, civil liability, or disciplinary action form state pharmacy board.
We as a patient in the sense has no choice but to trust the health care professionals providing us with advice or treatment and helping us with our medicines, patients are confident that the people who are working with them are competent that they will look after them, treat them properly, the aspect that we might called patient centered professionalism. In recent years the government have set out a new vision across public policy of pharmacy professionals to play an increasing important role in the health care system, as this happens, those demands of expectation from patients on pharmacy professions continue to grow. A great starting point for this would be that the experience of vast majority of the patients are positive, have a high level of trust in the profession. In recent research (public perception of pharmacies 2015 ) into patient attitudes, , the trust level that the public have in the pharmacy were compared to trust levels in other health professions, and result suggest there is a lack of trust from the public to pharmacy, However the evidence doesn’t necessarily support this statement, when you explore the research in a little bit more detail, it shows where patients knows what to expect from
Pharmacists often work together in a team with other healthcare professional like physicians and nurses. In the process, pharmacists will give advice to them on the selection of medication, by providing the evidences based on the dosage form, the side effects and possible interaction with food of the medication. On the other hand, pharmacists also take part in research and clinical studies. Recently, pharmacists are recruited to conduct pharmacy-based research in pharmacies. (Swanson, 2005)