Hooks Superx, Inc. V. Mclaughlin The Pharmacists

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

Pharmacists are part of the patient care team, responsible for overseeing the best, safe, and management cost on medication therapy using evidenced of medicine to improve patient care in all patients. Medical staff and other team are depending on pharmacists on their knowledge of drugs and collaborative practice. In larger hospital there are pharmacists on different floors and opportunity to interact with other. Hospital pharmacists gather with multidisciplinary team to help improve therapy by providing clinical services to patients. Let see how pharmacist’s role in the hospital setting and a scenario where the pharmacist’s involvement make an impact on health facility, medical team, and patient. To begin with, I will talk about pharmacist’s

Job Description: Pharmacists ensure that medications are used appropriately, and that they bring about the best results. Their responsibilities include professionally interpreting and reviewing the prescription orders written by doctors, dentists, and other authorized health care providers, and also for giving out the medications accurately to patients. The main goal of pharmaceutical care is to improve the quality of patients? lives by the use of medications that have been prescribed in order to accomplish specific results.

According to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA 2009), the wrong route of administrating medication accounts for 1.3 million injuries each year. An article published in September issue of the Journal of Patient Safety estimates there are between 210,000 and 400,000 deaths per year associated with medical errors. This makes medical errors the third leading cause of deaths in the United States, behind that comes heart disease and cancer. To prevent medical errors always follow the Three Checks and most importantly the Rights of Medication Administration. The “Rights of Medication Administration” helps to ensure accuracy when administering medication to a patient. When administering medication the administer should ensure they have the Right Medication, Right Patient, Right Dosage, Right Route, Right Time, Right Route, Right Reason, and Right Documentation. Also remember the patient has the right to refuse, assess patient for pain, and always assess the patient for signs of effects.

A physician could make mistakes in prescribing, the pharmacy could send the wrong medication, but who actually gave it to the patient is accountable for the consequences. For this reason, it’s our responsibility to implement change in our practice based on the evidence in order to ensure safe patient care.

This article talks about human errors in dispensing drugs. Adverse drug reactions have reportedly claimed more than 100,000 lives in America. Pharmacy mistakes may have contributed to the deaths as a result. Studies uncovered that these human errors were mainly caused by distractions and interruptions. Other contributing factors include long working hours, heavy workloads, complicated procedures, misinterpretation and work stress. Pharmacists were generally asked to handle a huge amount of tasks within a short span of time. The tasks include reviewing patient’s profile, verifying with patient for any drug allergies, dispensing drugs and counseling for new drugs. Studies have also shown that over the years, the demands for prescriptive drugs

Hinderance or advancement? The five rights of medication have been an active participant in the medical field. They are essentially five guidelines for safe medication administration. The five rights to medication administration include the nurse verifying: the right patient, the right drug, the right time, the right dose, and the right route. Although each step has been implemented as a maintenance to improve medication administration throughout the medical field, many question their place. According to an article written by Matthew Grissinger, medication administration poses many risks for patients on the receiving end. Grissinger introduces different theory’s including but not limited to: at what point do medication administers stop following

There are other pharmacy staff who also have roles in relation to the safe dispensing of medicines. A pharmacist is responsible for: Overall checking of a prescription to make sure that it is legal and written by a person qualified to do so, dispensing the right quantity of the correct medicine, ensuring that medicines are correctly labelled with the person’s name, the name of the medicine and the dosage, providing advice and treatment for minor illnesses, injuries and health concerns, providing a repeat prescription service in co-operation with GP

Monitor and effective communication between patient and pharmacist are essentials for a patient-centered care. Pharmacists need to educate patients as well as caregivers and family, so they can always monitoring

The pharmacist is Responsiblities of the pharmacist includes counselling the patient counsel on treatment complications, proper medication administration, expected outcome , adherence and possible side effects of medications.

By the spring of 2005 there were over 240 pharmacist SP4 and the barriers to SP began to be recognised. As stated by Hughes et al these included financial and organisational problems, a general lack of awareness into the role as well as ‘over bureaucracy’ of the clinical management plan.5 Consultations in 2005 evaluated the option of further extending the prescribing role of pharmacists to allow patients greater access to healthcare services and pharmacist knowledge.1 Legal changes in 2006 introduced independent prescribing for pharmacists, enabling the prescribing of any licensed medicine for any medical condition

The traditional role of pharmacists has been to dispense medicines prescribed by physicians, dentists, and podiatrists and to provide consultation on the proper selection and use of medicines (Nickitas, Middaugh, & Aries, 2010, p. 112). Under the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990,, pharmacists are required to give consumers information about drugs and their potential misuse (Nickitas et al., 2010, p. 114).

As the roles of Pharmacists continue to evolve and expand, Pharmacists are more easily accessible to patients and are able to provide direct patient care services but with all the other roles they have to perform, such as verifying everything that leaves the Pharmacy, they are sometimes unable to provide as much patient-focused service. This has raised the debate on whether increasing the roles of Pharmacy technicians to include performing duties such as accepting verbal prescriptions, transferring a prescription or performing final medication verification will allow Pharmacists to have more time for clinical services thus increasing overall productivity. Although I am in support of creating more opportunities and expanding the roles of the

The practice of pharmacy has many usual aspects, for example, compounding and providing the patients with their medications. Moreover, it has newer aspects that are due to the current practice that involve monitoring patients with their medications to make sure that the medications are safe and working. It also involves informing the patients about their medications. As a result, pharmacists are the chief source of drug information and the main healthcare providers who improve the results of medication

Pharmacists are highly trained health professionals with years of practice in the health field. Pharmacist does more than just dispense pills. They review dosage levels, monitor medication compliance, watch for and prevent drug interactions and work closely with prescribers and patients to detect and avoid