Hepatitis B Case Summary

PRN medication can be ordered on a repeat prescription, along with any other medication the service user may be taking. However care must be taken to check existing stock levels in order to avoid the over-ordering of medication. If stock levels are sufficient enough to last until the next order date they should be left off the repeat order.

Roles and responsibilities of the person dispensing the medication is to check to make sure the prescription is legal and signed by a qualified person, ensure there are no errors, to dispense the right quantity and dose of medication, make sure the medication is clearly labelled with the instructions of the dose, the name of the medication and person, provide advice and treatment for any minor illnesses and health concerns. Pharmacies will also provide a repeat prescription service.

A pharmacist must check any medication that is administered to a patient. This is the

This act is an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom and it governs the manufacture and supply of medicine.

The storage of medicines is usually a matter for service users and their families however special procedures may need to be exercised in some cases to protect a vulnerable service user. Where it is inappropriate for the service user to have access this will identified in the care plan and medication must be kept in a safe place which is known and accessible to relative, care/support workers, health professionals and domiciliary care staff.

* There must be a policy at work place for the receipt, recording, storage, handling, administration and disposal of medicines.

Ensures all the pills are separated into the correct times as well as days. And

There are several legislations in place with protocols for the administration of medication which I have listed below. The main policy re admin of drugs and storing of drugs and medicines is the Control Of Substances Hazardous to Health or COSHH but along with this there are other policies in place as per the list below.

The Medication Policy and procedure and Mars Handbook covers assessment of individuals’ needs, administering, storage, recording and disposal of medicines including their effects and potential side effects

- The chemist’s role is to dispense the medication that is written on the prescription. It is his/ her responsibility to make sure that the items they give out are correct and are exactly the same as what is written on the prescription. If there are any mistakes then they should contact the doctor who prescribed the medication.

The nurse must verify the physician’s medication order, including the dose and time, and then the pharmacy is responsible for their own checks and balances via the BCMA system in order to complete the dispensing phase of the medication (Gooder, 2011). The nurse enters the BCMA system with a login and password and is able then to see a list of the virtual due list for a specific patient. The computer on wheels is then taken to that patient’s room and the five rights of medication administration begin. As nurses, we are taught to use the five rights of drug administration are (1) right patient (2) right medication (3) right dose (4) right route and (5) right time. By scanning the barcode on the patient’s hospital identification band, the nurse then asks for the patient to verbally state their name and date of birth, which can be verified by the nurse on the virtual due list and then choses the medication that are due for administration at that time. The medication is dispensed and the nurse is able to scan the barcode on the medication, the scanning triggers the automatic documentation of the medication given (Kelly, 2012).

At the end of the medication round facility X’s policy and procedures state that the trolley shall be cleared of all items, washed down with alcohol cleaner, cups and spoons washed in hot soapy water and drug chart folder is to be wiped down then everything is to be put back together on the trolley again.

Ethics make it really difficult to disclose the personal information of others. There needs to be respect for patients and their information which should be confidential- ethics are vital in the healthcare system. In the movie, some Chinese people went to the extreme measures of performing illegal trades for the newly developed vaccine so that they could help their rapidly dying village; they kidnapped Dr. Leonora Orantes to gain leverage on her intelligent father to give them the vaccine. The Chinese were so concerned about the people of their village and their health that they went to crazy methods to receive the vaccine that they were hoping would help. Next there was Dr. Ally Hextall, who gave vaccine #57 to herself, which appeared to have worked on a monkey. This is very questionable because Dr. Ally made an impulse decision on injecting a vaccine in her that may also have had terrible side affects; seeing a healthy money after one day shouldn’t qualify for an approved vaccine. In addition, there was Dr. Ellis Cheever’s action to take the vaccine for himself and give it to a janitor’s young son. The Vaccine was not intended to be given to the adolescent, but Dr. Cheever put others before himself- Ellis still wore the barcode band on his wrist, portraying that he injected the vaccine even though that was not the case. Dr. Cheever’s wife, on the other hand, was not so fortunate. She

vaccine.” Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/parents/infographics/journey-of- child-vaccine.html. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s “Journey of your child’s vaccine” illustrates the complete process a vaccine must go through before it is licensed and released to the public. After a vaccine is created and manufactured for a specific disease under the guidelines of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), three phases of clinical trials are enacted to monitor the safety and effectiveness of it. After the trials, the FDA licenses the vaccine if it proves to have benefits that outweigh the risks associated with the specific disease.

To ensure the proper documentation of all dispensed and returned research drugs. Effective immediately, all unused/emptied bottles must be returned to pharmacy BEFORE a new research drug supply can be dispensed.