My Placement At Paul Donaghy Pharmacy

This pharmacy catered to the local community. Some customers that came into this particular pharmacy were college students, middle- aged individuals, and elderly patients. I interacted with college students and elderly patients. Some prescriptions that were often filled included medications for hypertension, oral contraceptives, and controls.

in the clinical placement, I developed and culturally applied appropriate communication with clients each week I was there. As I would walk down the hall and see a client I always greeted them. As I would enter the rooms that I would be doing client-centered care I greet and introduce the client that I am a nursing student at Humber College doing my clinical placement. If you welcome yourself into a room without introducing yourself that makes the client not feel safe and feel vulnerable, but by saying hello you build respect and develop a trusting relationship with a client. This demonstrates trust-building strategies to develop a nurse-client relationship, introducing yourself and calling the clients by their preferred name. And providing

The contribution of pharmacists in a clinical setting and community pharmacy is significant that the workforce benefit from. When the workforce understands their medications and complies with the prescribed treatment plans the work center becomes healthy and the potential of increased productivity becomes a realistic and profitable proposition for the organization. When the workforce takes advantage of the healthcare services the pharmacists provide in a community and clinical pharmacies productivity and profit are at high potential reality.

Concerning pharmacotherapy, physicians are reluctant to prescribe controlled medications because the DEA is more stringent. However, at CRH’s Mental Health Unit (MHU), many patients are still addicted to narcotics and stimulants. Some patients take pills to wake up, to be pain-free, and to sleep. Apparently, some doctors in the area are still prescribing these medications. They will treat obese patients with stimulants. Instead of taking the medication, patients will sell their pills to make money. Then, they come to MHU, and the hospitalist or psychiatrist will start the pharmacy-confirmed

I feel like as humans we tend to make a routine for ourselves and before we know it we cannot go beyond it. The effort to learn something or do something different becomes tiresome. Our lives are conditioned to be a routine; eat, sleep, go to school (college now) and most dreadful of all, learn. It is not come as a surprised as when school is over we come home and toss our book bags anywhere, but, near. We do not want to be reminded of learning (until the next morning). So, for me my life became a sort of routine and I was totally fine with that. I was okay with my typical boring high school life with seeing the same friends and teachers and doing basically the same thing everyday.

A Corrective Action Plan meeting was held on 8/3/15. Present during the meeting were Elena Briceno, Regional Director, People's Care, Dara Mikesell, Manager of Quality Assurance, Kristen Gener SG/PRC Service Coordinator, and Adriane Picazo, Manager of Client Services, RS1. Plan of Correction: A, Staff will dispense medications as prescribed by physician B, The Administrator arranged for staff to received medication training by a pharmacy on July 24, 1=2015, verification of this training was submitted on August 3, 2015. C, The Administrator will instruct the staff to continue following the present Medication Dispensing Protocol, which indicates that DSP A dispenses the medications and DSP B verifies the medications with the Medication Administration

Pew, Stephen, Ph.D (2008). Introduction to Health Services. 7th Ed. [Video] Thomson Delmar Learning. Retrieved from:

In the United States, approximately 20% of 30-day hospital readmissions are due to inconsistent transition of care (TOC).5, 13 This means the expenditure of billions of unnecessary dollars that could have been prevented if the patients had received proper, coordinated, and consistent care from discharge back to the community. In fact, Medicare reports show more than 17 billion dollars a year are spent on preventable readmissions, leading cause being improper medication usage after discharge.1 Up to 2% of these medication discrepancies were life-threatening and even led to death.7 Medication discrepancies often occur when patients have a lack of understanding of discharge medication plans, inadequate literacy to understand the dismissal notes, become nonadherent to medication regimen, and/or experience adverse drug events.8, 11 Expanding community pharmacists’ involvement in post-discharge TOC and improving communication will benefit patients, healthcare providers, and the healthcare system through decreased hospital readmission, medication related adverse events, and financial burden.

In regards to the survey information the hospitals gathered, many of the hospitals shared the same strengths and weaknesses, with a few notable exceptions. Areas that were consistently low throughout all the hospitals were cleanliness of the hospital as well as noise level, an aspect which pharmacists do not have control over. An area in which they do have control over is if a patient’s medications are explained to them, which was a weakness of a majority of the hospitals. An area where the hospitals showed a collective strength was communication with doctors and nurses. A synergistic relationship between nurses, doctors and pharmacists will change this weakness of medication education to a strength.

I chose to complete my placement at Glen Waverley Private Nursing Home in order to better understand the role of a registered nurse and other health professionals such as general practitioners, podiatrist, physiotherapists and geriatrician, especially in terms of coordinating with each other to deliver patient centred care to the residents. During my placement, I also hoped to review my clinical skills in an aged care setting and incorporate better communication skills while consulting elderly patients. I was keen to obtain further knowledge about the management of patient medication through both for the management of polypharmacy (which we were taught about during Ecology of health two).

At this particular site I saw the importance of pharmaceutical care and its importance between patient and pharmacist. The major idea of pharmaceutical care is having a patient-centered pharmacy practice. This was practiced heavily at this pharmacy. Patients were counseled on any new prescriptions that they had and they were always informed about any changes in their medications. In my second week of IPPE I had to inform a patient that their medication would look

I worked a minimum of 30-hours work week for ten years as a pharmacy technician in Dominick’s Pharmacy to put myself through school avoiding student loan. During this journey of work experience I was able to observe a combination of knowledge and patient care. It helped me build a solid relationship with patient. It was very important to reassure patients who were insecure about certain drugs or even going through a procedure. After learning and understanding the psychology of diverse patients and being able to speak fluently in two other languages, I progressed to deliver the best patient care.

There is two types within the pharmacy:the retail and the hospice. The retail narc eater are mean and usually have an egotistic attitude. She always has a scowl on her face. Her look is distinct she has on dirty sweatpants and a t-shirt with holes in the armpit or around the neck. She comes in screaming “ you shorted me pills, where the fuck is the rest of my medicine” That is very unlikely, because each c2 and c3 narcotics get placed in a bubble sheet with the set amount of pills counted out for the dosage. If she is not complaining about not having enough medicine, she wants to fill the prescription too early and she doesn’t understand why the pharmacy can not fill it. Her insurance will not cover it unless she follows the correct dosage. She tries to pay for the prescription without insurance but the price can be a few hundred and she responds with, “you can shove the money up your ass.” The hospice narc eaters are worse than the retail. These patients are terminally ill and they still want to get that high or they want to sell their narcotics. For example, patient Sara Lee gets daily narcotics with only one day's worth, because her children will take her medicine and sell it. This causes that no one else can sign the manifest saying that the patient received the medication. This can only help so much. The pharmacy gets multiple calls saying that patient’s children is selling the medication right off the front porch.

During the interview she refer pharmacist as a role as an educator, information provider and immunizer in the community. Instead of only filling out prescriptions from doctors, there are also a great amount of pharmacist who work in promoting public health awareness as well as providing education class to the public such as diabetes class. She had also mentioned that pharmacist is now an immunizer to give vaccine. Comparing to other health profession, pharmacist however, cannot diagnose diseases but are educated to treat symptoms and give out advices to both patient as well as prescriber if in the setting such as hospital. However, if it is needed, pharmacist can refer the patient to a doctor.

The flow of the medical community is dependent on every person employed there. The harmony it creates does not only come from the doctors or nurses, but the janitors, surgeons, receptionists, and even the pharmacists. Each job is necessary in order for the hospitals to function properly; for instance, the doctors diagnose the patient with their illness, prescribe them medication to cure it, and send them to the pharmacist, who then gives them their medication and sends them home. However, some jobs are overlooked more than others and do not receive the proper credit, like the pharmacist. Pharmacists are recognized for dispensing and sorting drugs, but their jobs help educate patients over their prescription and uphold the