...I am writing to express my interest in the CPS/Mercy Hospital PGY1 pharmacy residency program. I initially learned about the program in September of 2o14 during a pharmacy administration rotation at Methodist Hospital in Merrillville, IN. When expressing my interest in pursuing a pharmacy residency, my preceptor spoke highly of the program. After further research and the opportunity to learn more about the program from a current resident and members of your team during the ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting Residency Showcase, this program would help me achieve my professional goals and would provide an ideal environment to continue my development as a pharmacist. One of the most encouraging aspects about your program pertains to the extensive...
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...Reflecting back on IPPE summer rotation, I experienced different perspectives of community as well as hospital pharmacy. Both of these practical settings delivered unique aspects of their own. Due to the varieties of experiences I had during summer at these settings, I was also able to decide my long term career goal that made me rethink if I really want to make my career on becoming a medication therapy management practitioner. Other than that I was also able to finish my goals I have decided to accomplish during first professional year. During IPPE summer rotation at community pharmacy, I continued to focus on my goal with taking all the considerations and comments I received from my mentor, preceptors and friends....
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...taught during pharmacy school, it seems like they are only addressed in quick lectures that don’t require much critical thinking. An option to improve this deficit would be to address the information early and often. Repetition is one of the best ways for me to commit knowledge to long-term memory. I vaguely remember one or two labs in pharmacy practice where we practiced filling a prescription and billing it through a fake third party. If this lab was repeated more often with different kinds of rejections that are common in a community pharmacy, I think that would greatly help improve comprehension. Moving forward, I hope that with more practice I will gain a greater understanding of third party billing. I plan to discuss with my preceptor or fellow coworkers any questions that arise during my rotations and throughout my...
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...interventions, along with legal limitations, the many different medical specializations and the sharp rise in the use of generic pharmaceuticals (Klepser, et. al., 2008) It is possible that a pharmaceutical professional may find themselves in vulnerable positions as well, feeling trapped between their own personal ethics and the liabilities placed on them by their profession. They may find themselves sometime questioning as to whether they can fully uphold them. Furthermore, new drug regimens have increased in complexity, generating such related professional challenges as drug interactions, drug product selection, and therapeutic drug interchanges, suggesting new professional roles and relationships for pharmacists (Buerki & Vottero,2002). Physicians and patients depend on and expect pharmacists to fill their prescriptions for treatment as...
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...incident I was working as a pharmacy technician in ________. The dilemma I was faced with involved a fellow technician who was hired at the same time as me and the two of us had become close friends during the course of our employment. Now this friend of mine was obsessed with bodybuilding to the extent that he was willing to steal intravenous steroids from the pharmacy. As a friend I tried to warn and convince him to stop stealing but because he was consistently successful in doing so, he ignored my advice.[F3] When the Pharmacy Manager was beginning (verb form: “…Pharmacy Manager began to…”) to get suspicious due to loss in inventory, he took his crime to another level,(punc.: ;) he began changing the stock quantity by using one of the pharmacists’ login and password. At this point, I was becoming more and more adamant in my warnings and was even requesting shift changes just so I would not be witness to his actions. If he would ask me why I was changing shifts (punc.: ,) I would lie and say it was due to school. So not only was I withholding the truth from my employer I was also falsifying it to my friend. After a month the manager was sure that one of the employees was stealing from the company and was almost positive it was my friend, due to his now enormous size from the steroid injections. Knowing that I was close to this individual, the manager began to question me and even hinted at firing the both of us (word choice/phrase: ‘firing both of us’, or, ‘firing the two of us’)...
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...The Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust Introduction: The pharmacy department of the Ipswich hospital recognised that the process of their operations is not at the desired level of quality. That is when they decided to take action and sent their staff on a one-day course on ‘quality for hospital pharmacists’ training. The objective of this training is to have all staff members involved and onboard to get better understanding of the mission statement of the department, the importance of continuous improvement initiatives and the get better understanding of techniques and procedures to follow or improve. The Continuous Improvement Program (CIP): The Pharmacy Department Staff covers: 13.5 Pharmacists, 16 Technicians, 5 Assistants and 3.5 Clerical workers. The CIP diagram was launched after all staff members completed the training and included of the following: 1. The steering Group comprised of: the head of pharmacy, the CIP coordinator and one member of each sectional improvement team (SIT): Clinical services, Dispensing, Manufacturing and Stores and distribution. 2. Each SIT has their selected members to discuss problem identification and continuous improvement opportunities. Each SIT has given an example of what can be improved in their area. The objective of CIP: * Increase Involvement of workers * Use their knowledge to improve systems and operations * Improvement through exposing problems * Process redesign, developing highly efficient ways to...
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...for community action, social gastronomies and related human interactions. Explained in great detail by Joseph Fink (2012), during the early 1800's a group of concerned Philadelphia based apothecaries met to discuss the declining trade environment and ways to enhance scientific standards to protect public safety and welfare, as well as to provide improved competency levels of training for apprentices and students within the industry. The result of this meeting was the establishment of the first college to train pharmacists in the United States known as the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, and a prescient foretelling of changes to come. There are two main contenders in the first drugstore in America game. The first claim is attributed to a drug store located in Fredericksburg, Virginia, a rural establishment that Martha Washington was supposed to have frequented as a patient around the time of the Revolutionary War. This drug store did not maintain a licensed Pharmacist, which lends closer scrutiny to a second claim. During 1804, the State of Louisiana enacted a law that mandated licensing requirements for...
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...Hiring a pharmacist for a rural 100-bed hospital does not leave a CEO many options for alternative dispensing of medications. There are usually only a few pharmacist in the hospital and in the town itself. The pharmacist is mandated by standards that manage their practice. The physician writes an order that is specific and in good standing for a patient. The pharmacist checks the order and other medications the patient is on at the time of the new prescription. The pharmacist must make sure that there is no interaction between any of the medication. A pharmacist is obligated to contact the physician if there is any other medication in the system that is not a good interaction with the new medication. A pharmacist must now offer all patients a consultation regarding their new or old medications. When hiring any employee, it is not legal to ask them their religious beliefs therefore, one cannot know if prescribing a certain type of medication would be against those beliefs. As a CEO, she would have to come up with an alternative plan for dispensing these medications. The CEO would need to meet with the affected parties. In a small hospital, this would be any other pharmacists, director of nursing and possible other pharmacists in the community. This would need to be a confidential meeting. The pharmacist that is refusing to give certain medications due to religious reasons does not need to vilified...
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...f. patient counseling, g. the provision of pharmaceutical care, and h. the responsibility for compounding and labeling of dispensed or repackaged drugs and devices, proper and safe storage of drugs and devices, and maintenance of proper records. | “active practice of pharmacy” | the performance of the functions set out in this section by a pharmacist as his or her principal or ordinary occupation | “pharmaceutical care”Note: CAN enter into practice agreement | the provision of drug therapy for the purpose of achieving therapeutic outcomes that improve a patient's quality of life, including include a. the cure of disease b. the elimination or reduction of a patient's symptomatology c. the arrest or slowing of a disease process d. the prevention of a disease or symptomatology | Equipment and Reference material requirements for operating a pharmacy | * Not very specific anymore * Up to judgment of pharmacist based on what they will be doing in the pharmacy * References must be up to date, in either printed or electronic form, and available at all times while the pharmacist is practicing for that pharmacy. * The orange book or an equivalent reference is necessary | Credential to practice may be denied, refused renewal, or have disciplinary measures taken: 1. misrepresent facts (not reporting felony, etc) 2. immoral conduct 3. abuse, dependence, active addiction on drugs/alcohol 4. failure to comply with a...
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...I. INTRODUCTION Capsule is a new digital-only pharmacy that focus on delivery of prescription drugs. The startup was founded in May of 2016 by Sonia Patel, a former pharmacy manager for Sam's Club and Eric Kinariwala, a former Bain Capital analyst. The company’s mission is to make everything about visiting a pharmacy easier or just save the customer the trouble of visiting one at all. Capsule is grounded in a belief that patients deserve more from their pharmacy than long lines, out of stock prescriptions, and antiquated technology. Capsule has a friendly, caring pharmacy team that handles all communication with physicians and consumers. It delivers medication to the patient’s home or office for free throughout Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo....
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...Pharmacy tech is the trade that I’m in. This is a good trade to be in if you really like are very good in Math and Reading. The reason I choose this trade because in the future I would like to be on the medical field. This was one of my long term goal that would benefit me as I get older in life. Another reason I choose this trade so I can have a better life for me and my family. The hardest thing about this career is that you have to do a lot of converting and the different type of math. It would will take time to learn how to convert you measurements that you are using. Learning the different types of drugs will take a lot of time to get in your head without you needing the paper to know them. There are different types of drugs that I will have to know and what they are used for. In this career you make up to 9,347 monthly, and yearly you make 112,160. The benefits of a pharmacy job with rxpro health associate and finding out the benefits of working for one of the most respected and skilled pharmacy staffing companies in the business. If I think back and even now the reason I really have an interest in the medical field is the suffering I see in the elderly and some young people my age. How big business has affected the pharmacy business and how medication cost have inflated. I would like a better understanding of the transfer of cost and why prescription medications are sometimes extremely too high for some and extremely accessible to others. I would like to be able to recognize...
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...APhA-ASP national president visits student pharmacists By Matt Chen (Class of 2018) and Kara Paulachak (Class of 2019) Every year, members of the American Pharmacists Association – Academy of Student Pharmacists (APhA-ASP) National Executive Committee and APhA Student Development Staff visit APhA-ASP Chapters across the nation to not only assess the strengths of each Chapter but to also assist Chapter leadership in planning for a successful year. This Fall Semester, Kelsea Gallegos, APhA-ASP National President, paid a visit to the Hawai`i APhA-ASP Chapter. During her visit, she met with the Hawai`i APhA-ASP Executive Board, Chapter Advisors Dr. Jarred Prudencio and Dr. Paula Zeszotarski, Interim Associate Dean Supakit Wongwiwatthananukit,...
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...uestion #: 1 Which of the following does a Pharmacy &Therapeutics Committee do? (Select all that apply) A. Educates patients about medications on the formulary used at the hospital B. Dispenses medications that are on the formulary used at the hospital C. Makes decisions on whether a drug should be added to the formulary used at the hospital D. Manages the formulary to be used by physicians, nurses and pharmacists at the hospital Item ID: 1911 / 2 Item Description: Final Exam Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee ____________________________________________________________________________ Question #: 2 In a road accident in Times Square, Manhattan, the driver of one of the cars suffered a concussion which the NYPD deemed as requiring...
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...Giguere , Star Tribune Sales and Marketing • Updated: May 25, 2009 - 5:44 PM • In a changing healthcare environment, the role of the pharmacist has evolved from primarily dispensing to monitoring and managing drug therapy in collaboration with physicians and other providers. As a result, pharmacy technicians are beginning to take on some of the technical aspects of pharmacy practice. This means that better educated, more qualified technicians will be needed in the future. • Basic Duties • Technicians help licensed pharmacists dispense medication to patients. They receive the prescription, enter it into the processing system, prepare and label the medication and - after the pharmacist signs off on it - ring up the sale. • Some technicians with special training mix intravenous medication. "We also handle insurance and patient's financial questions. This is a very challenging part of the job," says Randy Cleem, a certified pharmacy technician at the Park Nicollet Clinic - St. Louis Park (www.parknicollet.com). • New Responsibilities • Outside of Minnesota, tech-nicians are taking on additional responsibilities. In some hospital pharmacies, one technician now checks prescriptions filled by another - a function known as "tech-check-tech." • In other settings, technicians educate patients on the use of pillboxes and screen patients for pharmacist-run medication clinics. And at one large university medical center technicians help with data analysis. • Changing Requirements • Six...
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...Legal and Ethical Consideration in Marketing, Product Safety, and Intellectual Property Terra Bradley LEG500, Law, Ethics, and Corporate Governance Professor Lateefah A. Muhammad 17 March 2014 Legal and Ethical Considerations in Marketing, Product Safety, and Intellectual Property In this paper I will identify three ethical issues relating to marketing and advertising, intellectual property, and regulation of product safety. I will argue against Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) marketing by drug companies. Next I will determine who regulates compounding pharmacies under the current regulatory scheme, what the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) could or should have done, and whether the FDA should be granted more power over compounding pharmacies. I will decide whether PharmaCARE’s use of Colberian intellectual property would be ethical in accordance with Utilitarianism; Deontology; Virtue Ethics; my own moral and ethical compass. Afterwards, I will analyze the way PharmaCARE uses U.S. law to protect its own intellectual property while co-opting intellectual property in Colberia. Then I will suggest at least three ways the company could compensate the people and nation of Colberia for the use of its intellectual property and the damage to its environment. I will compare PharmaCARE’s actions with those of at least one real-world company whose creativity in skirting legal technicalities led to ethical lapses and financial loss. I will also determine the...
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