...IPE is known as interprofessional education. Two weeks ago, an IPE event was held in LIU that influenced me a lot. Before I went to this event, I expected to learn how to communicate and work with other professionals as a pharmacist. Moreover, I expected to learn how to utilize the pharmacists’ code of ethics in this IPE event. In fact, IPE event was very helpful for me. I learned a lot from this event. It was my second time participating IPE event. Students from different professional programs attended this event as well as faculty members, such as pharmacy, nursing, physician assistant, respiratory care and social work. We worked in teams with realistic scenario and tried to figure out who would be the best candidate for liver transplant in respects of autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice. This experience was special to me because I never worked with other professionals before. The IPE event was also helpful to me because I learned how to communicate with other...
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...industry brought about an urgent need for the teaching of professional ethics in schools of pharmacy. The measures taken in response to this demand were very necessary as the public now places such high expectations on pharmaceutical professionals, and rightfully so. They have access to both lifesaving and life-ending drugs and they possess knowledge that the common person finds intimidating. Patients feel a sense of vulnerability with all of the aspects involved with the industry that they may not understand such as the electronic transmission of information, electronic records, e-scripts, delivery and the complexity of health interventions, along with legal limitations, the many different medical specializations and the sharp rise in the use of generic pharmaceuticals (Klepser, et. al., 2008) It is possible that a pharmaceutical professional may find themselves in vulnerable positions as well, feeling trapped between their own personal ethics and the liabilities placed on them by their profession. They may find themselves sometime questioning as to whether they can fully uphold them. Furthermore, new drug regimens have increased in complexity, generating such related professional challenges as drug interactions, drug product selection, and therapeutic drug interchanges, suggesting new professional roles and relationships for pharmacists (Buerki & Vottero,2002). Physicians and patients depend on and expect pharmacists to fill their prescriptions for treatment as...
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...Administration The Ohio State University Louis D. Vottero, M.S. Professor of Pharmacy Emeritus Ohio Northern University American Institute of the History of Pharmacy Madison, Wisconsin 2002 Acknowledgments: Pages 208-10: "Principles of Medical Ethics" and "Fundamental Elements of the Patient-Physician Relationship," reprinted with permission from the Code of Medical Ethics, American Medical Association, © 1994 and © 2000. AMA logo reprinted with the permission of the American Medical Association. © 2002 American Medical Association. Usage of the AMA logo does not imply an endorsement of the non-AMA material found in this book. Page 211: "Code of Ethics for Nurses with Interpretive Statements," reprinted with permission from the American Nurses Association, © 2001 American Nurses Publishing, American Nurses Foundation/American Nurses Association, Washington, D.C. Pages 212-15: "A Patient's Bill of Rights," reprinted with permission of the American Hospital Association, © 1992. Pages 216-17: "Pharmacy Patient's Bill of Rights," reprinted with permission of the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy. On the cover: The "triad of medical care" has been the basis for the ethical relationship between the pharmacist, the physician, and the patient for centuries. In the background, an early depiction of the triad from Book 7 of the encyclopedia On the Properties of Things by Bartholomew the Englishman, published in Westminster about 1495. In the foreground, a...
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...Leo works for a small printing business, a job he enjoys, but one that makes it difficult for him to make ends meet. With only six employees, the company’s owner cannot afford to offer health insurance. Leo’s annual salary of $30,000 allows him to purchase only the most basic of health plans, one that does not include coverage for prescription medications. Leo frequently must decide between medications and food, often opting for cheap junk food that is neither nutritious for his young family nor appropriate for a diabetic diet. Leo has recently applied for and been offered several other jobs, but at a lower salary and with no health insurance coverage. Recently, Leo’s diabetes has worsened. He has developed a serious infection that has led to lost wages and, far worse, the loss of his right leg below the knee. Leo is weighing his options. He has heard about a new clinical research trial open to insulin-dependent diabetics that pays $100 a week to research subjects. He has also been quite depressed and begun to wonder if his children might not be better off without him. He has several life insurance policies that would pay off generously if something were to happen to him, and he has broached the subject of assisted suicide with his long-time physician. Is there a way, he asks his physician, to have his death look like it was from natural causes so his children could collect on the policy? CHAPTER QUESTIONS 1. What ethical responsibilities do health care professionals have...
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...Business Research Ethics Danielle Dunnivant RES/351 March 30, 2014 Harold Graff Case of Unethical Behavior in Pharmacy One of the most trusted health professional roles is that of a pharmacist. Unique to their profession they are faced with an array of ethical challenges. A Pharmacist is like a gatekeeper to drugs which give and take life. It is known of some pharmacies to even put their customers health and their well-being above any profits the pharmacy could make. However, there are some that do not, and when this occurs, and profits are all that’s seen, the results can become tragic. The New York Times reported a story “Toxic Pharmacist” which outlined a case regarding Robert Courtney, the Kansas City, Missouri, pharmacist convicted in 2002 of con diluting and selling cancer drugs to his customers at Research Medical Pharmacy Tower. He admitted to diluting the drugs for thousands of patients over a nine year period. Courtney continued to defraud his customers even after amassing nearly 20 million dollars. He was sentenced to thirty years in prison, and forever “cosigned to freedom” in the history of pharmacology. When asked when he went to trial why he did it Courtney replied “I don’t know why I did this.” Physician Stephen Barrett believes pharmacists, most notably, national chain pharmacies, have put profits over patient’s health. This includes...
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...and or give special treatment to large financial donors, and trustees family members because they are helping keep the doors open and the business functioning properly and as well have the power of your job placement. Another ethical issue in health care is the addressing nurse moral distress about providing care with minimal benefit. As we learned in the case of Terry Schiavo these cases can be difficult for everyone and drain some bedside nurses to the point of asking themselves why am I doing this? Am I really helping this person or hurting them? 3. Give 2 examples of moral issues affecting healthcare and describe how you determined your choices to be moral issues. Two examples of moral issues affecting health care are that some pharmacists feel they can refuse filling prescriptions for birth control because they feel it is wrong and I feel...
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...law, marketing or accounting do not have to maintain the high standard of professionalism that pharmacy students have to demonstrate whilst in school. Students have deemed this set of rules unfair and professionals insist that it has to be maintained in order to fully understand the grasp of pharmacy as a profession. Personally, I understand the need to abide by these rules but also agree with other students that is not necessarily fair. The profession,pharmacy, deals with lives. The three most important aspect of pharmacy are quality, safety and efficacy of medicines and these in turn help to save patients’ lives, to improve their health and to manage chronic diseases while at the same time maximising the comfort of the patient. It is important to demonstrate a degree of professionalism for patients to ensure their lives in our care. This level of competence can only be exhibited upon entering the profession if students are taught right from day one. It improves the chances of perfecting skills that have been taught and instilled from college and therefore of providing better services to the patients. As future pharmacists, pharmacy students have to assume the role and learn to behave in an appropriate manner that is respectful to both the profession and colleagues. A pharmacist or even a pharmacy student that is inappropriately behaved would have a detrimental effect on the name of the profession. It would impact on other colleagues and workers associated with working in a pharmacy...
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...A career in Medicine A pharmacist is a healthcare professional who is a expert on pharmaceutical drugs and how they act to fight disease and improve the heath of the patient. Pharmacists are responsible for the implementation of drug therapy with the intention of improving the quality of a patient’s life. Some examples of such improvements include curing diseases, reducing or eliminating a patient’s symptoms, slowing the process of a disease, and preventing disease. A pharmacist works with patients and other healthcare professionals in order to design, implement, and monitor a drug therapy plan specifically designed for that patient. Not only do pharmacists advise doctors and patients on prescription drugs, but they also provide information on the best medications that can be purchased “over the counter”. The most common goal of pharmacists is to move beyond their traditional role of simply dispensing medication and deal with patients more directly and on a more personal level. They strive to be a source of advice on medications for both heath-care professionals and patients. They also are dedicated to providing individualized services to patients. Such services include consultations and providing more understandable information about the side effects of the medications that the patient is receiving. More than 1,000 years ago, religious and magic practitioners controlled the medical aspects of people’s lives. They believed that many aspects of disease were beyond observation...
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...Negligence in Pharmacy Practice Negligence, according to Fremgen (2009), occurs when a person either performs or fails to perform an action that a reasonable person would or would not have committed in a similar situation. Most of the time medical professionals will have your best interests at heart, and will do their best to take care of you as much as medically possible. However, there are a few cases where medical professionals make mistakes, and unfortunately the patient has to pay for it. In today’s pharmacies, pharmacists work in a very fast paced, demanding environment, dispensing medications to patients in need. A pharmacist’s most common errors are in three categories: inappropriate dosing, prescribing the wrong medication, and failure to monitor side effects. (“U.s. pharmacist continuing,” 01 1). This paper will address these common errors as well as the methods to prevent these errors. Inappropriate Dosing Common inappropriate dosing errors include, prescribing medications to patients who are allergic, and prescribing inappropriate dosage forms. (“U.s. pharmacist continuing,” 01 1). Every day, pharmacists count, pour and hand patients their medication, medication that isn’t always right. Medical mistakes, according to Leamy (2009), are the eighth most common cause of death in the United States—ahead of car crashes, breast cancer and AIDS. (Leamy, 2009). Also, if the medication isn’t right, this could lead to the wrong informational forms to be given to the patient...
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...10/16- Conscience Claus is something that allows health care professional to uphold their moral and/or religious values while still helping patients. This really interests me because of all the discussion of abortion and legal physician assisted suicide in the news. I didn’t know that pharmacist had the option not fill a medication. If a pharmacist cannot fill a certain drug an unbiased mind, they should not be forced to do it, it would only harm the patient. That being said, one cannot leave the patient without the medication, so they need to find an alternative pharmacist to fill it. The clause allows patients to receive the best most unbiased medical care possible. 10/23- Dr. Feinburg spoke about cases where federal and state laws differ from each other. In those situations the more stringent law applies. In the case where no state law are in place, the federal law applies. This makes sense, though there is the problem of judging which law is stricter. This is really important to keep in mind because I am in New York, which is known to have stricter laws compared to federal law. The reason this interested me was because I always wondered which laws took precedence....
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...Administrative Ethics Paper Marie Hammond HCS 335 01/13/2014 Susan Fajfasz Abstract This document is going to talk about the importance of patient information and how private it is. There are many article, magazines, and newspaper ads that deal with confidentiality and the HIPPA rules and regulations that limit doctors from giving patient information to a third party. Doctors are not able to give out patient information without the consent of the patient, in this paper though it will be talking about nurse administrator’s privacy. This document is going to explain the issues in this topic and its impacts that it has on populations it affects the most. Describe the facts that used in an article to support proposed solutions. Describe the ethical and legal issues reported to administrative issue. Explain the managerial responsibilities related to administrative ethical issues, and lastly this document will present information on proposed solutions. Administrative Ethics Paper Patients have the right to privacy especially when giving away their information in order for them to get medical help patient information such as name, number, initials, or hospital numbers are not allowed to be published in written descriptions, photos, etc. Any patient information is only allowed to be given away or talked about to a third party if there is consent from the patient himself. Patient consent must be written and archived with the authors, journal, or both, as dictated by local...
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...make most of the medication errors. Some healthcare providers fail to consult the right people for the fear of sanctions (Kalra, 2011). However, hospitals are trying to change their cultures to enhance communication between the various departments in the hospital to prevent a recurrence of such mistakes. The nurses and pharmacists face the challenge of determining the right prescription to give patients, and they end up carrying out research on the possible usage of a particular medicine due to fear of sanctions....
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...LEG500, Law, Ethics, and Corporate Governance Strayer University LEG500 13 Legal and Ethical Considerations in Marketing, Product Safety and Intellectual Property PharmaCare, week10 Assignment LEG500, Law, Ethics, and Corporate Governance Strayer University LEG500 13 Legal and Ethical Considerations in Marketing, Product Safety and Intellectual Property PharmaCare, week10 Assignment Review of PharmaCARE/CompCARE To first establish whom each entity is; PharmaCare is one of the world’s most successful pharmaceutical companies. A compassionate, decent well operated business that manufactured high-quality goods that saved millions of lives and increased the condition of life for millions of others. PharmaCare designed a top-selling diabetic medication that could have reduced the progression of Alzheimer’s disease; their pharmacist began reformulating the drug to increase the effect. CompCARE came into being in order to steer clear of FDA investigation; PharmaCARE created a wholly owned establishment, CompCARE, to function as a compounding pharmacy to sell the new creation to people on a prescription basis. CompCARE set up business in an upscale administrative center near its main corporate office, and to conserve money and time, did a quick, low cost makeover and appointed a man by the name of Allen Jones to run the operations’ clean room. * Research three to five ethical issues relating to marketing and advertising, intellectual property, and regulations...
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...Business Ethics across Cultures Juanita Bates Axia College University of Phoenix Business Ethics across Cultures 1 Ethics is a guideline of knowing what is right or wrong. Ethical perspectives are a moral view of things. Business ethics are a form of professional or applied ethics. These ethics examines ethical principles and ethical or moral problems that may arise in the business world. All aspects of businesses are affected including individuals and organizations. With the growth in industrial population, the rise of consumerism and popular reaction to large numbers of scandals and corruption, there has been a change in perception and attitude. The United States passed the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in 1977 forbidding the United States companies from giving bribes to high level government officials of other countries. Many business people did not like the act; they felt it was unfair because foreign countries continued to use bribes while the United States companies could not. German companies were allowed to use their bribes as tax deductible expensive until 1998. They felt the foreign countries would have an advantage of the United States companies. The United States government used what pressure it could to encourage other countries to adapt the same type of law. After 20 years, many other countries agreed. By the 1980’s , many companies started using ethical structures by developing code of ethics, providing ethics training for employees, monitoring...
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...WORD COUNT 1648 1 Law, Accountability and Ethics in prescribing During my supervised practice in an outpatient clinic the non-medical prescriber I was with was asked by a colleague to prescribe for a patient on her behalf. In my role as a vascular clinical nurse specialist, I run nurse led clinics working alongside other nonprescribing colleagues seeing patients with peripheral vascular disease, this can range from patients with leg ulcers or diabetic foot ulceration with wound infections to patients with intermittent claudication, Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm or varicose veins, all of whom may or may not need medications or wound management treatments prescribed. It is very likely that during these clinics once I qualify as a non-medical prescriber I will be asked the same. In this essay I will explore the issues of law, accountability and ethics raised by prescribing on behalf of others. The legal system of England and Wales has two branches of law; criminal and civil Criminal Law: Statues are acts of parliament which are presented via the House of Commons moves to the House of Lords where amendments are made, returns to House of Commons, for final discussion when complete the Bill is given Royal Assent and passes into law. Criminal law involves offences against the state, it is usually the Crown that brings the action against the defendant (Gagan 2010 cited by Courtnay & Griffin). In terms of non-medical prescribing there are two important statues ...
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