...interests when it comes to my future. I hope to attend a four year college, and after graduation attend graduate school. Having gone to small schools my entire life, I prefer a small school. I am looking for a school with a tuition under $30,000, but would not rule out schools that aren’t significantly over my budget. I am open to the thoughts of leaving home, yet I am not sure I would survive on my own. None of preferences are set in stone and I am willing to try and consider new possibilities. When it comes to careers and majors, I have considered becoming a pediatrician, orthodontist, pharmacist, or being an english major. After researching all of my options, I became even more interested in pharmacy. A pharmacist helps in the treatment of disease. They advise both doctors and patients about the dosages, interactions, and side effects of certain medicines and help people make decisions regarding which drugs to take. Pharmacists work at...
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...The Colorado End of Life Options Act Jasmine Shaw Denver College of Nursing Abstract This paper is intended to provide an overview regarding the Colorado End of Life Options Act. This paper includes information regarding what it is, who qualifies to use it, and what the entirety of the process looks like. The ultimate goal of this paper, however, is to provide enough information regarding the Colorado End of Life Options Act to ensure that a general understanding of the basic requirements/qualifications, processes, individuals involved, and dilemmas surrounding physician assisted suicide is obtained. Keywords: Colorado, End of Life Options, Physician assisted suicide The Colorado End of Life Options Act The concept of physician...
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...Andrew Yates Instructor – Anissa Demiter ENG 111 January 16, 2015 Literacy Narrative Throughout my childhood, the idea of having a college education was greatly stressed. As a result, it was my duty as the next generational child, to excel in my studies and achieve a life of prosperity and success. Learning became the basic foundation of my growth. Therefore, my youth was overtaken by many hours spent reading and writing what was known to be correct "Standard" English. I first found this to be a great shortcoming, but I knew that one day I wanted to have a great career. At this time I had no idea what I was going to become but trough reading and writing I had a few ideas. One idea was to be a truck driver or a pharmacist, but I later discovered I liked law enforcement much better. Through the many years of school I have found it very hard to get through my English classes. I found writing to be the hardest subject, but I always gave it my best. Reading I found much easier. I have always liked reading more it is easier than to write something. My mom always helped me through by encouraging to do so. She always told me “son if you just give it your best then you will make good grades”. Those words have stuck with the throughout my life. I strive to do my best in everything I do today. I give it my best. I think the reason I struggled with writing is because I’m more of a hands on person. I have been this way for as long as I can remember. I used to take...
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...We Can But Should We Chamberlin College of Nursing NR361: Info Systems in Healthcare Abstract In this paper we begin with a short history of the Quick Reaction code (QR code) and move onto the QR code in marketing and how it can be similarly used in the healthcare field from advertising to take-home monitoring equipment for patients. We discuss a study conducted by Lin C, Tsai F, Tsai W, Wen H, & Hu M., 2012 and how the use of QR codes has help to decrease wait times in the pharmacy and actually increase accuracy of dispensing correct medications. After discourse on personal information we will end this paper with a few healthcare related ethical concerns. We come to the conclusion that QR codes could be beneficial to the public and private sectors of healthcare. Quick reaction codes (QR code) had their beginning in auto manufacturing plants in Japan in 1994; QR codes were designed to help track automobiles during the manufacturing process (Gottesman, & Baum, 2013). Like many other technologies, when shortly after their initial production, QR codes were found to be useful in many other areas than just automobile manufacturing. QR codes have recently been heavily used for marketing. The QR code is able to hold a significant amount of information and anyone with the correct tool to read the code is able to extract this information such as a website or such that for a consumer could lead to a shoe store, a hair salon, or even an electronics store. From auto manufacturing...
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...PRESCRIPTIONS Anita Walsh Western Governors University Prescriber writing errors happen in all forms, places and types. From what the medical staff thinks, the prescriber has prescribed and calls in to the local retail pharmacy, hospital pharmacy, or even the in house pharmacies: adding that the pharmacy processing these uncorrected prescriptions that end up getting to patients. If someone does not catch these errors whether it is the pharmacist, being asked by the patient, why there receiving this drug, because they thought doctor said something else. Therefore, the pharmacist may check it. In a hospital, setting a nurse may look at a chart and question the drug, and call and verify. However, many times no one questions it until the patient has a reaction, or what he or she are being treated for gets worse. Along with communicating with the prescribers, their offices, hospitals, patients, pharmacists also have to be up to date on the all laws, federal and state, and be watchful for those that try to fill fraudulent or altered scripts. Research suggests that there would be significant benefits if all prescribers would follow the same procedures for writing prescriptions, such as using computer generate prescriptions or E-scribe, because there would be a decrease in prescription writing errors, pharmacy mistakes and prescription fraud. Pharmacies call prescribers offices to clarify prescriptions information, on average 150 million times yearly. That’s what makes E-prescribing...
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...The Apothecary Compounding Center: Global Operations Management 7313 Term Project EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In an attempt to meet the patient demand for compounding services within the Memphis metropolitan population, we will establish the Apothecary Compounding Center on the campus of Baptist Memorial Hospital. Our goal is to cater to patients in this area that need individualized medication regimens and want a close relationship with their pharmacist. As we develop our business, we want to focus on maximizing the safety and efficacy of our compounded products. We will utilize the Professional Compounding Centers of America, or PCCA, in order to help accomplish this goal. This organization offers many important benefits to compounding pharmacies in all stages of their development. Our employees will be trained by PCCA, which will hone their working knowledge of USP <797>, crucial guidelines that every compounding pharmacy must follow. In addition to training, PCCA will serve as our supplier, which will ensure quality products with which to compound. Furthermore, we will have access to numerous formulas that are specific to PCCA, which will greatly benefit our operation. The number of patients needing compounded prescriptions has risen in recent years, and we aim to capitalize on this growing demand. Our patient population will largely consist of patients from the clinics of Baptist, but we hope to expand our patient base to include anyone that could...
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...TABLE OF CONTENTS Contents Page No. 1: INTRODUCTION 3 1.1 GOAL OF A TERM PAPER 3 1.2. PHARMACY 3 1.2.1. BABITO PHARMACY 4 2: Literature Review 4 2:0. Back to theory: the principal models for services quality 4 2.1. Customer Satisfaction 8 2.2. Satisfaction levels 9 2.2.1. Greatly disappointed customers 9 2.2.2. Mildly disappointed customers 10 2.2.3. Experience according to expectations 10 2.2.4. Mildly positively surprised 10 2.2.5. Greatly positively surprised customers 11 2.3. Dissatisfied customers 11 3. Case Study Babito Pharmacy- retail SERVICE 12 3.0. Determinant of Service Quality in a pharmacy 12 3.1. KEY FACTORS 12 3.1.1. COMPETENCE 13 3.1.2. Courtesy/ personnel friendliness 13 3.1.3. listening skills and UNDERSTANDING 13 3.1.4. medicine in stock 13 3.2. PLUS FACTORS 14 3.2.1. pharmacy location 14 3.2.2. store accessibility 15 3.2.3. PRIVATE SERVICE AREA 15 3.2.4. medicine quality 16 3.2.5. quality/price ratio 16 3.3. SECONDARY FACTORS 16 3.3.1. waiting time 17 3.3.2. LIGHTING 17 3.3.3. entrance atmosphere 18 3.3.4. shop design 18 3.3.5. freedom of movement in the pharmacy 19 3.3.6. EASE access to products and to shelves 19 3.3.7. Presentation and window display 19 4. CONCLUSION 20 5. RECOMMENDATION 20 6. REFERENCE 21 1: INTRODUCTION Services quality and customer satisfaction have been for over a decade two important topics both for the academic world and for the researches...
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...Vaccines: The Right Choice? Alex Hauke Walmart Pharmacy Abstract This research paper takes an in depth look at the question of whether vaccines are the right choice when it comes to your health and staying healthy. Opposing views say that vaccines are unsafe and pose more risks than benefits, this paper explores those claims using rebuttable sources and helps readers to better understand vaccines and what their benefits and risks are. Most believe that the benefits of vaccines far outweigh the risks but some still have doubts and some very rare cases of vaccines causing disease have added to this doubt. This paper explores the world of vaccines in an effort to educate the less knowledgeable. Research Findings Introduction The history of vaccines begins with the long history of infectious disease in humans, and usually it is reported that the origin goes back as far as Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, 400 B.C. He described diphtheria, mumps, and epidemic jaundice among other conditions (Hussein, et al. 2015). The earliest methods of immunization and protection against smallpox dates back to about 1000 A.D., and are attributed to the Chinese. It has been said that the son of a Chinese statesmen was inoculated against smallpox by blowing powdered smallpox sores into his nostrils. Another way of inoculation was the removal of fluid from the sores of an infected person and then rubbing it into a cut or scratch of a healthy individual. It took almost six centuries...
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...World War II there was a sudden growth in junior colleges to support the demand for technical training and education of returning veterans. At the same time there were accelerated advances in medical sciences and facilities and a supporting demand for more nurses. Creative educators, led by Dr. Mildred Montag, starting in the early 1950’s created the two-year ADN curriculum to help meet the growing demand for nurses. “Dr, Montag’s doctoral research, not only as the spark that began the Associate Degree Nursing movement, but also the research base that proved her ideas could work in the real world and established Associate Degree Nursing as the only nursing program that was research proven over time.” However, some educators took liberties and experimented with the ADN curriculum as they worked to provide the best mix of clinical and classroom education. In 1965, the American Nurses Association (ANA) published a position paper titled “A Position Paper on Education Preparation for Nurse Practitioners and Assistants to Nurses.” This paper stated; “the education of all those who are licensed to practice nursing should take place in institutions of higher education” and “the minimum...
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...Final Research Paper Tanya ANT 101: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Final Research Paper Different societies exist throughout the world and within these societies each society develops culture that works best for them. Within these cultures they pass all their acquired knowledge and traditions down from generation to generation. Nevertheless, each culture has their own way of life, own marriage beliefs, their own values and feelings on life and religious beliefs. Cultures tend to have their own way to run their government, and ways to keep their economy up to their standards. Most importantly in cultural anthropology it is imperative to value culture relativism. This is the view in which no culture is superior to other culture when comparing systems such as morality, law, and politics (Crapo, 2013). Each culture beliefs are equally valid depending on the environment. In this paper, I will delve into a piece of my culture from an outsider’s standpoint, an etic perspective, and furthermore, I will examine another culture from an emic perspective on their traditional practices. Not only will I examine gender roles and equality in the United States workforce from an etic perspective, but also polygyny in Sub-Saharan Africa from an emic perspective. Throughout American history the number of women in the United States workforce has been increasing even though American society has always claimed men to be the breadwinners and heads of the house. According to...
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...settings, and emphasize the baccalaureate degree as the minimal entry level for ‘professional’ nursing practice (Giger & Davidhizar, 1990). The following essay will discuss the differences in knowledge base and competencies between the associate-degree and the baccalaureate-degree nurse clinician. Historically there have been three routes of entry into the field of nursing. For the purposes of this paper, we will focus on the associates program traditionally offered at community colleges, and the baccalaureate program taught at the university level. Graduates from both of these programs sit for the same (NCLEX-RN) National Council Licensure Examination (AACN, 2015). Course study in an associate’s degree program usually includes nursing fundamentals and clinical care across the lifespan, but their main educational focus revolves around clinical skills, health assessment, and medication administration. Baccalaureate programs, on the other hand, encompass the entire curriculum taught at the associate’s level with a more detailed study of the physical and social sciences, nursing research, public and community health, nursing management, and the humanities. This added educational preparation gives the new...
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...organizations use their profits to continue providing services that help mankind. For-profit organizations use their profits to share with investors or used for whatever the owner wants. Discussed here will be Goodwill and Walgreens, to show the differences between an not-for-profit and for profit companies. By presenting a case study on the two companies, will help the reader to have a clear understanding of the information that is addressed. This paper analyzes personal and organizational ethics and values between not-for-profit and for-profit organizations. The purpose of this paper is to identify key problems related to business ethics in these two organizations and how they use different ways to solve those problems. Introduction: The purpose of this case study is to provide knowledge of a analysis of personal and organizational ethics and values between not-for-profit and for-profit organizations. Goodwill Industries and Walgreens will be the not-for-profit and for-profit organizations that will be analyzed in this paper. The paper will be broke down into four parts. The first and second part is an analysis of Goodwill Industries and Walgreens including the ethical dilemma that it faced, the way they responded to this ethical dilemma and outline of the legal, social, or political outcomes as a result of those actions. The third part is a personal reflection of the ethical actions that were taken by both of these organizations. The last part a is the critique of the actions...
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...Chain Solutions White Paper In “Building Supply Chain Management Capabilities in the Pharmaceutical Industry Part 1: Trends Impacting the Supply Chain,” we explored the business implications of major trends impacting pharmaceutical supply chains. Unless pharmaceutical companies begin taking action now to create more business-effective cost and process structures, survival will be at stake. These trends are having the greatest impact on sales and marketing, channel management, and new product development and rollout. Ultimately, we believe these trends and implications are converging to create an environment in which price pressures are becoming so intense that a growing number of pharmaceutical companies will struggle to meet shareholder expectations. Unless pharmaceutical companies begin taking action now to create more businesseffective cost and process structures, survival will be at stake. We propose that the winning pharmaceutical companies will build differentiating capability in five supply chain areas: • • • • • Production Fulfillment Customer Management Forecasting & Planning Procurement AS THE MEGA MERGER WAVE CALMS, THE VALUE CHAIN CONTINUES TO EXPERIENCE RESTRUCTURING • Evolution of new channels as PBMs and disease management programs (e.g., cancer service centers) grow in popularity • Disintermediation of wholesalers and distributors as 3PLs increase service levels and accommodate pharma regulations • Growth in outsourcing extends into research and development and...
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...Costco Pharmacy POM Audit Team 7 Executive Summary Design of Goods and Services- Costco can be seen to be in their maturity stages of their life. Therefore, it is recommended for Costco to expand its Pharmacy department by at least 50%. Process Design-Costco processes prescriptions and provides the prescribed drugs to customers. For each prescription, pharmacists carefully review the dosage along with other drugs you may be taking in order to prevent any chance of medications interacting with each other. They also ensure you do not receive any medication which could result in an allergic reaction. It is recommended to introduce E-prescribing in the near future as it would reduce the duration for each prescription process. Layout-The Costco Pharmacy Layout can be defined as a Retail Layout. The main objective of a retail layout is to maximize profitability per square foot of floor space. However further research will need to be conducted to make a recommendation Capacity- Even though the pharmacy department is not operating at 100% efficiency, it is still using and managing their facilities effectively, operating at 72% efficiency on a daily basis. However, future capacity planning is required as the efficiency capacity is increasing as population grows. Productivity- The labor productivity is currently5 units per labor hours while the multifactor productivity is 0.040 units per dollar. After auditing Costco’s productivity it was found that Costco should aim to increase...
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...Coca-Cola Company Case Study GB 518 Financial Accounting Principles and Analysis Kaplan University SUMMARY Accounting is an important aspect of business because it is the foundation that offers support to management for planning, and controlling activities as well as decisions. When an organization is doing business they need a way to keep score of operational financial activities. The purpose of my research paper is to discuss the details of my interview with an accountant at Coca-Cola Company, Atlanta headquarters. Mr. Joe Angus has worked with the company for twelve years and sat down with me for a 25 minutes interview in his office to eagerly share the accounting practices of the company, and the operating activities within the business that generates revenue and move the business forward. Company Overview The Coca-Cola Company is the largest beverage company in the world that provides consumers with more than 500 sparkling and still brands of refreshing drinks. While Coca-Cola is the most valued brand in the company’s portfolio, it features 15 billion dollar brands including Diet Coke, Fanta, Sprite, Coca-Cola Zero, vitamin water, PowerAde, Minute Maid, Simply, Georgia and Del Valle. Globally, Coca-Cola Company is the number one provider of sparkling beverages, ready-to-drink coffees, juices, and juice drinks. Throughout the world’s largest beverage distribution system, consumers in more than 200 countries enjoy Coca-Cola Company beverages at a rate of more...
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