pharmacies tend to our loved ones in nursing homes, hospitals, long term care facilities, and on their last days with hospice (Johnston, Frank, & Luke, 2006). Within this environment are trained pharmacy technicians that are sworn to protect the health, rights, and privacy of the patients they care for. This is a privilege all by itself, but the job of a pharmacy technician is just beginning. Pharmacy technicians work as a support system of an institutional pharmacy. There is much weight applied to their
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This kind of approach is responsive to the needs and values of the patients and consumers. The Australian Charter of Healthcare Rights, the Australian Safety and Quality Framework for Health Care, the National Safety and Quality Health Standards support this kind the Patient Centred Care. There are health reform proposal that provides additional incentives and funding for those organisations
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effects, sideeffects, and route of administration, risks, safety, and strength as the original drug. In other words, their pharmacological effects are exactly the same as those of their brand-name counterparts. Many people become concerned because generic drugs are often substantially cheaper than the brand-name versions. They wonder if the quality and effectiveness have been compromised to make the less expensive products. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requires that generic drugs
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Patient safety is threatened by nurses who divert drugs, and therefore, these nurses become a liability to their employers. Healthcare facilities share a responsibility with nurse leaders to ensure a secure system is in place that will prevent medication
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to protect patients' medical records and other health information provided to health plans, doctors, hospitals and other health care providers. | HIPAA should be used in all health care settings because it protects patients and deals with privacy rights. The new standards provide patients with access to their medical records and more control over how their personal health information is used and disclosed. So if someone other than the patient’s calls into a medical facility trying to get information
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make sure to give the right doses of medication to the right patient. The nurse reads a patients chart, which contains the doctor’s orders, including what kind of medicine to give and how much to give. A nurse must make sure to read the name of the medication correctly as well as the strength of the medicine the doctor has ordered. This is important particularly if the conditions for determining the dose depend on the patient's weight, blood pressure or glucose level. Medication strengths can be measured
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With the Food and Drug Administration guidance, drug companies are allowed to advertise their product thru the media. Since the 1980's, drug companies started to advertise their products to the general public (www.fda.gov), since then raised many question from both medical professionals and the public. Questions such as: How does this affect the patient and physician relationships, does the ad give me as the patient enough information to consider the drug, and why doesn’t my physician prescribe
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College of Nursing End Stage Renal Disease 20 to Diabetic Nephropathy Presented by: Balgos, Rachelle Ann Dayto, April Feranil, Daniel Fulinara, Janice Fuentes, Maila Joy Garrido, John Paolo Mendoza, Kenneth Robert Nazareno, Jhon Ryan Olfindo, Kristine Joy Sombilon, Jorgette Kim *** In Partial Fulfilment of the Requirement in NURS 60 for the Degree Bachelor of Science in Nursing TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Demographic Data 4 II. Chief Complaints
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Advance pharmacology in an essential step as a nurse practitioner (NP) to understand how medications interact in the system before prescribing to patients. As noted by Dr. Terry Battaro Laureate Education (2010), part of our responsibility as advanced nurse practitioners is to prescribe medications and therefore must understand the outcome of the mediation. NPs have to be able to connect ideas from the Pathophysiology of the disease process, the pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics which is not
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therapy involves administering medications through a catheter or needle. It is recommended when the patient's condition does not require hospitalization, but it cannot be treated with oral medications. Immune diseases, neurological conditions and dermatological conditions can be treated with infusion therapy. Crohn's disease, hemophilia and rheumatoid arthritis. What Is Specialty Infusion Therapy? Specialty infusion therapy involves the administration of specialty medications. The term "specialty" means
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