Health Care Experience At Kleinvlei Community Health Center

From your service experience, describe an observation, incident, occurrence in which you were subjected to inequity at the workplace either from the perspective of the staff or patients.
During my SLIP visit at Kleinvlei Community Health Centre, I had an opportunity to be assisting in the PREP room. In the PREP room, patients belonging to different clubs receive their appointment dates for the repeat of their chronic medications. Patients on chronic treatment also receive their lab results together with their new prescription to be filled at the pharmacy. In this division of the health care center, different health care professionals are found, although the custodians of medicines are seldom found. Pharmacists had to be the missing piece of
The medicine, Pharmapress® was the reason behind her non-persistent cough as she mentioned during the assessment. Rather, the prescriber changing a patient from Pharmapress®, to a different to a medicine that belongs to a different medicine, the prescriber had decided to place the patient on a product called Hypace® which contains the same active ingredient, enalapril.
Although I was allowed to comment on the care plan for the patient, I had to ask the prescriber regarding the change of the medication of the same class, and the prescriber’s response was very unprofessional. During the course of the session with the patient, I felt like I was not part of the care plan team. Having to be told that I’ll only be able to change the therapy when I start practicing made feel moved and undermined as a third-year pharmacy student.
Describe the situation and the feelings which were evoked in you (what where, when, why & how).
How did your frame of reference (eg. culture, language, religion, beliefs, morals, values) influence your reaction to the inequitable situation.
Although traditionally, an elderly person is given an opportunity to speak and I, as a young one,
I had no negative association towards the incident.

If you could be a witness to yourself looking at the incident and your response to it, how could you reframe your thoughts about of this incident to interpret it in a more inclusive manner that would enable you to advocate for equitable access to health care or service provision on behalf of the patients. I think in each and every prescriber’s room there should always be a pharmacist in the ward.I felt that there should be a pharmacist due to the fact prescribers just prescribe although the patient is still allergic to the same medicines.I discovered that prescribers are not well informed when it comes to patient’s drug-related problems hence the pharmacist should always be available in the ward to assess with drug therapy.
What I can’t make sense of is the fact that I always thought that prescribers were only medical doctors, but that wasn’t the case, at the facility, the prescriber was a qualified nurse. I have always wondered how drug-related problems became a major concern in most of our health care industry although I was aware that most were due to non-adherent