Ethical considerations Flashcards

1
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What are the Gphc standards?

A
  • Person centred care
  • partnership working
  • effective communication
  • professional knowledge and skills
  • professional judgement
  • professional behaviour
  • confidentiality and privacy
  • speaking up about concerns
  • leadership
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What does confidentiality include?
(what bases it covers)

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  • Electronic and hard copy data
  • Personal details
  • Information about a person’s medication (prescribed and non-prescribed)
  • Other information about a person’s medical history, treatment or care that could identify
    them
  • Information that people share that is not strictly medical in nature, but that the person
    disclosing it would expect to be kept confidential
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What does confidentiality NOT cover?

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  • Anonymous information
  • Pseudonymised information
  • Information that is already legitimately in the public domain
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When would you disclose confidential information?

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  • Have the consent of the person under your care
  • Have to disclose the information by law
  • It is in the public interest
  • Or in the vital interests of a person receiving treatment or care, for example
  • if a patient needs immediate urgent medical attention
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What would you do if a person with capacity refuses to give consent for information
to be shared with others e.g. healthcare professionals?

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  • Limited care, consequences
  • Use pseudonymised information
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What are the two types of consent?

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Explicit and implied

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What is explicit consent?

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when a person gives a pharmacy professional specific permission, either spoken or written,
to do something

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What is implied consent?

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when a person gives their consent indirectly
If a pharmacy professional is not sure whether they have implied consent, they should get
explicit consent.

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What conditions must be met for consent to be valid?

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  • Have the capacity to give consent
  • Be acting voluntarily
  • Have sufficient, balanced information to allow them to make an informed decision.
  • Be capable of using and weighing up the information provided.
  • Understand the consequences of not giving consent
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What does a person need to be able to do to be classed as capable?

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  • Understand the information provided
  • Remember the information provided
  • Use and weigh up the information provided, and
  • Communicate their decision to the pharmacy professional (by any means).
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11
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When might religious beliefs come into certain treatment scenarios?

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  • contraception (routine or emergency)
  • fertility medicines
  • hormonal therapies
  • mental health and wellbeing
  • substance misuse
  • sexual health
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12
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What are you going to raise concerns about?

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  • malpractice
  • not following the GPhc guidelines
  • NO CONCERNS ABOUT PATIENTS (not your business)
    *anybody that comes into contact with the patient
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Why is raising concerns important?

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  • duty of care
  • public safety
  • protecting people recieving care
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Where can you report/ raise concerns?

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On and off site, including placements

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What type of concerns can you report?

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  • bullying and harassment
  • unprofessional practice
  • poor patient care
  • breach of patient confidentiality
  • lack of professionalism online
  • irresponsible or illegal prescribing
  • a crime, or a civil offence
  • a miscarriage of justice
  • a cover up of information about any of the above
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16
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What are the 6 step mechanism to raising concerns?

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  • find out the organisations policy
  • report without delay
  • report to the immediate supervisor
  • report to another suitable person in authority or outside body
  • keep a record
  • maintain confidentiality
17
Q

What does PIDA stand for?

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Public Interest Disclosure Act (1998)

18
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What to do in a dispensing error?

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  • establish if the patient took any of the incorrect medicine
  • inspect the incorrect medicine
  • apologise
  • don’t try minimise the seriousness of the incident
  • make a supply of the correct medicine ordered on the prescription, if appropriate
  • establish their expectations
  • provide details on how to make a complaint if requested
  • try establish what happened and what went wrong
  • follow company procedure
  • record, review and learn form mistakes
  • notify the pharmacist on duty it was not you
  • inform insurance
19
Q

What happens once a patient takes the wrong medication out the pharmacy?

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  • it is now their property by law
  • they can keep it even if the error is resolved (for court etc)
20
Q

What is a sexualised behaviour?

A

‘acts, words or behaviour designed to
arouse or gratify sexual impulses or desires’