responsibilities Staff who have not had training has limitations and should be supervised by trained staff Obtaining Medication Ordering medication must be authorised and be ordered by trained staff Medication must be supplied by authorised staff (pharmacies) Storage of Medication All medication must be secured safely preferably in a locked cupboard. The cupboard should be off the floor and fixed to the wall Kept organised and tidy Medication should be stored below 25C and out of direct sunlight
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Pharmacy Health care profession Health is a word very known but it carries a lot of complications and troubles. According to the WHO‚ health is a state of complete physical‚ mental and social well-being and not merely absence of any illness. Health care system depends upon a health care team. A health care team is the group of community who contribute to a common health goal and common objectives determined by community needs. Although community pharmacist is of key importance in providing
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| Ethics in Corporate Society | | PHARMACEUTICAL MARKETING-the growing ethical concern? Analytical Report | | | Madiha Raza Noama Naeem Sheikh Zargham Zaigham LETTER OF AUTHORIZATION November 5‚ 2011 Dear Readers‚ As students of BBA‚ our course instructor of Ethics in Corporate Society‚ Ms. Tania Danish authorized us to make a report on the “PHARMACEUTICAL MARKETING-the growing ethical concern?” We were required to make a report in accordance to our learning in the course
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radiology and pharmacy. In these departments‚ we focused on two ergonomic concepts which include workstation design and manual handling. Safety was also taken into consideration. The report will be approached using the engineering design method: DAMES. We observed and studied a typical work day in each department in order to analyze the problems rising due to non-ergonomic environments. Table of Contents Introduction to Topics: 3 Approach and Methodology: 5 Define: 6 Pharmacy: 7 Analyze:
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‘Three Strikes’ Rule Boosts Hand Hygiene Compliance As hospitals around the country stress hand washing as a means of reducing infection‚ a suburban Philadelphia medical center has kicked it up a notch. In a new twist to the existing hand hygiene campaign at Abington Memorial Hospital‚ poor hand-washing habits now could cost staff their jobs. Those observed not washing their hands or using hand sanitizer when entering or leaving patient rooms will be handed index cards noting their noncompliance
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Running head: Preventing Medication Errors Preventing Medication Errors: Safe Medication Use is Achievable and Affordable Chareese W. Brown DePaul University HTHC 523-201: Winter 2012 January 17‚ 2012 Almost everyone will take prescription and non-prescription medication. It is estimated that 82% of United States (U.S.) adults will use prescription medicines‚ over-the-counter remedies‚ and/or dietary/herbal supplements. Nearly one-third will use five or more different medications (citation)
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handled cash and worked competently on tills‚ particularly at busy time. This entailed working systematically and efficiently under pressure even at times when certain aspects are not functioning flawlessly. Over the summer‚ I worked in a Community Pharmacy which allowed me an insight into the intriguing change in the shift in the role of the community pharmacist‚ from solely dispensing prescriptions to now offering advice and counseling in regards to medication‚ services and products.
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the covenantal relationship between the patient and pharmacist” (American Pharmacists Association). What this means is that the pharmacist has moral obligations to the society to gain their trust. The patients that fill their prescriptions at any pharmacy are putting their trust in the pharmacist that they will give them the correct medication and the correct amount and dosage of the medication. The second principle is that “a pharmacist promotes the good of every patient in a caring‚ compassionate
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Pharmaceutical companies are allowed to deal in generic and/or brand medications and medical devices. They are subject to a variety of laws and regulations regarding the patenting‚ testing and ensuring safety and efficacy and marketing of drugs. “Pharmacies could be found all the way back until to the Middle Ages (probably to Baghdad during the Islamic Golden Age around the year 750)‚ it wasn’t until the beginning of the 20th century and the important discoveries of insulin and penicillin in the 1920s
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that medication errors happen from the staff. Vasileff‚ H. M.‚ Whitten‚ L. E.‚ Pink‚ J. A.‚ Goldsworthy‚ S. J.‚ & Angley‚ M. T. (2009). The effect on medication errors of pharmacists charting medication in an emergency department. Pharmacy World & Science‚ 31(3)‚ 373-9. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11096-008-9271-y This article explains in great detail the errors that many pharmacists make that contribute to the medication errors in and emergency department. The
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