My personal goal is to become a clinical pharmacist specialist 5 years from now. The primary responsibility of the clinical pharmacy specialist is coordination and provision of clinical pharmacy service to patients. Clinical pharmacy specialist will serve as a resource on pharmacology as a whole. In addition‚ he/she will be able to apply clinical knowledge and skills when performing pharmaceutical functions and patient care activities. Moreover‚ it is important for a specialist to provide evidence-based
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Psy/270 Clinical Assessment Shirley L Nieves March 9‚ 2013 1- These are the questions I would ask the parents: * At what age was Clara adopted? * How long has this been going on? * Does she have a good relationship with the parents? * What are Claras sleeping and eating patterns? * How are the parents handling Claras tantrums? * How is Claras relationship with her teacher at her preschool? * How does Clara interact with her classmates? 2- I would use a few tools for the
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performance and has a distinguished role in patient safety. Medication errors are a healthcare professional’s worst nightmare and has become one of the biggest issues devoted encountered in today’s healthcare setting. According to the National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention (2016)‚ “a medication error is any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate medication use or patient harm while the medication is in the control of the health care professional‚ patient
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2014 ADHD Medication With the tremendous increase in ADHD diagnosis‚ altercations have been emerging about whether or not ADHD medications are being overprescribed. Many people feel as though ADHD medications are needed for the condition‚ but are doctors just "handing" them out? Medications may be necessary depending on how severe the case is‚ but some people take advantage of it. As a community‚ we need to limit the amount of ADHD medications being prescribed by doctors. ADHD medications have been
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Clinical Chemistry When people consider their careers in the health care field‚ most of them would think about being a physician‚ a nurse or a surgeon. Individuals with interest in the health care field are not aware of clinical laboratory science. I am one of those individuals who don’t know much about clinical laboratory science before. After taking the class “Introduction to Clinical Laboratory Science”‚ I start to realize that clinical laboratory scientists are just like other health care members
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Children with ADHD are being prescribed strong medications such as Adderall‚ Vyvanse‚ Ritalin‚ and many others. “An estimated 5% of children have a form of ADHD. More boys are diagnosed than girls; it is the leading cause of referrals to mental health professionals‚ SPED and juvenile justice programs. (Children’s Mental Health Disorder Fact Sheet for the Classroom...)” Many times‚ parents are faced with the decision of choosing prescription medications as an alternative to trying different routes
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Test Taking Tips for the Nursing Board Examination [pic] Sometimes pure hard work and mental preparedness is not enough. The ability to answers exams or any test faster is a must specially if it is bounded by time. Usually the pressure sets in if the time is working against you and even if you’ve prepared 100%‚ it can ruin entirely what you have poured in. We have outlined test taking tips and strategies applicable not only in the June 2009
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Near misses and errors in medication administration is a trend that may occur more frequently than perceived‚ mainly due to the fear of reporting. Medication administration errors occur due to a plethora of factors including staffing limitations‚ knowledge of pharmacology‚ miscommunication‚ and the inevitable ’human’ factor (Durham‚ 2015). Nurses may fear the repercussions of reporting or not be clear on what events need to be reported. To improve incident reporting‚ clarification is needed of which
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Evaluating the Research Process This was an interesting study to read and examine. Medication errors are a significant problem‚ but not a problem that cannot be solved. There are precautions that can be taken to minimize the errors. The three specific areas the study focused on were prescription‚ transcription‚ and administration phase. Many errors occurred during all three phases‚ however‚ not all of the errors made it to the patients. Most of the errors that reached patients did not cause
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In recent years‚ there has been an increasing interest in complementary medicine‚ and indeed alternative medicine. Moreover the number of professionally trained therapist and practitioners has increased giving the patient/client a better choice to their own method of treatment. In this essay a critical assessment of the view that ‘patients use of complementary and alternative medicine‚ can be understood as part of the individualization of responsibility for health’ will be made and argued‚ that there
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