UNIT 80 UNIT CODE: F/601/4056 1.1 Identify legislation that governs the use of medication in social care settings There are different legislations that govern the use of medication within social care settings: THE MEDICINES ACT 1968 THE MISUSE OF DRUGS ACT 1971 THE SAFER MANAGEMENT OF CONTROLLED DRUGS 2006 THE DATA PROTECTION ACT 1998 HEALTH AND SAFETY AT WORK ACT 1974 THE CONTROL OF SUBSTANCES HAZARDOUS TO HEALTH REGULATIONS (COSHH) HAZARDOUS WASTE REGULATIONS 2005 MENTAL CAPACITY ACT 2005 THE
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Conscientious Objection Case Summery Mr. Harry Rogers is a pharmacist working at a small community hospital for six years. He made a request concerning Conscientious Objection based on his new religious beliefs. One of the main functions of a pharmacist is to dispense medications. Harry Rogers chose to be a pharmacist prior to his religious conversion. However‚ his new beliefs are conflicting with his duties on the grounds of filling up abortion drugs as well as filling prescriptions for a physician
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Unit 39- Support Use of Medication in Social care Settings A)1.1 The Medicine act 1968 Governs the manufacture & supply of medicines. This requires that the local pharmacist or dispensing doctor is responsible for supplying medication. He or she can only do this on the receipt of a prescription from an authorised person eg a doctor. According to the law (The Medicines Act 1968) medicines can be given by a third party‚ e.g. a suitably-trained care worker‚ to the person that they were intended
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Cited: Jumaralli‚ and Zulaika. "Pharmacists VS. the Pill." Essence 36 (2005): 132. EBSCOhost. EBSCOhost. University of Phoenix‚ Tucson. 4 Aug. 2007. Keyword: birth control. Morahan‚ Lawrence "National Womens Law Center Expanding the Possibilities." National Womens Law Center. 2006. 4 Aug
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conscience...") but they have to understand other people’s moral grounds and priorities and not meddle into other people’s personal lives ("But the drugstore is not an altar. The last time I looked‚ the pharmacist’s license did not include the right to dispense morality."). Goodman illuminates how conscience clauses starts to increasingly empower and gives people opportunities to make choices based on their moral beliefs to the point of inconveniencing people; It starts with laws of exempting doctors in
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inevitable‚ which is why their opinion and occupation is crucial. In terms of sexual and reproductive healthcare‚ there is sensitivity regarding patient confidentiality‚ whether or not the doctors inform an adolescent’s parent. Issues such as STD’s‚ contraception‚ and abortion are the most common situations in which a teen desires privacy. There is controversy over what the limitations of parental involvement in sexual health care should be because teenagers just simply don’t want their parents to know
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from federal and state government‚ it is a challenge to dispense these products over an online system. To be a licensed pharmacy that dispenses drugs‚ both the pharmacy and pharmacist must be licensed by the state board of pharmacy. Internet sales complicate this requirement because of the likelihood that the requested drugs will be shipped out of state. Compiling with the home state as well as shipping state laws are something both pharmacists and pharmacies are required to do before the interstate
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village‚ which is far from city. The doctor provides and gives medicines for his/her patients. Providing and giving medicines to patients are known as dispensing medicines. Doctors who dispense medicine are directly giving medicine to a patient without writing a doctor’s receipt. The activity of doctor who dispense medicine in remote areas has been regulated in Regulation about Medical Practices No. 29 Year 2004 Article 35 section 1 (i) & (j). This regulation allows doctors to store medicines in limited
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among tweens and teens"(Elle 126). "A recent Scottish study found that giving women EC in advance did not appear to diminish abortion rates" (Elle 126). Many individual pharmacists have refused to fill prescriptions for such pills stating various reasons mainly religious beliefs. In February 2004‚ a Denton‚ Texas pharmacist refused to fill a rape survivor ’s prescription for emergency contraceptives‚ citing "religious convictions" (Planned). Some pharmacies have refused to carry the pill. Wal-Mart
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group. The work group is consist of four total people including myself. I work at Rite Aid Pharmacy. The main assignments given is to work with the pharmacist as a pharmacy technician to finish the task day to day. Secondary groups has many purpose like completing a project. Completing a project in my secondary group is to help the pharmacist to dispense medication for the patients in need. When a patient comes in with a prescription than first thing I do is ask for their insurance card and general
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