General Flashcards
What are the 7 principles?
- Make patients your first concern
- Use professional judgement in the interest of patients and the public
- Show respect for others
- Take responsibility for yout working premises
- Be honest and trustworthy
- Encourage patients and public to participate in decisions about their care
- Develop your professional knowledge and competence
Explain how you would promote patient centred healthcare.
Medicines optimisation; ensure that patients get best possible outcome from their medicines. Aims to help patients to improve their outcomes, take their medicines correctly, improve adherence, avoid taking unnecessary medicines, reduce wastage, improve medicines and patient safety.
There are 4 principles to it;
- Aim to understand the patients experience (ensure best possible outcomes);
- Evidence based choice of medicines;
- Ensure medicines use is as safe as possible;
- Make medicines optimisation part of routine practice.
What are the 4 principles to patient centred healthcare?
- Aim to understand the patients experience (ensure best possible outcomes);
- Evidence based choice of medicines;
- Ensure medicines use is as safe as possible;
- Make medicines optimisation part of routine practice.
What is professional judgement?
Using accumulated knowledge and experience, as well as critical reasoning, to make an informed professional decision to solve a problem. It takes account the law, ethical considerations, relevant factors and standards around the surrounding circumstances.
Thought process;
- Identify the ethical dilemma or professional issue;
- Gather relevant information;
- Identify possible options;
- Weigh up the benefits and risks of each option;
- Chose and option;
- Record. (P.M.R. = patient medical record)
Can pharmacists choose different outcomes for the same dilemma?
It is possible for two different pharmacist to choose different outcomes if faced with same dilemma.
What do you need to consider during a clinical check?
PATIENT TYPE: A patient can fall into a group where treatment is contraindicated or cautioned. Specific groups of patients to be aware are; CHILDREN, ELDERLY, ETHNICITY, PREGNANT or BREASTFEEDING.
CO-MORBIDITIES: Renal, hepatic of CV impairment or HF can exclude use of a particular treatment or alteration of the dosage.
MEDICATION REGIMENT FACTORS: Indication, Changes in regular treatment, Compatibility, Formulation, Monitoring Requirements, Dose/Frequency.
ADMINISTRATION & MONITORING: Correct route of administration and consider the need for administration aids.
What is a medicine?
A product that someone claims has a medicinal purpose. All medicinal products are “banned” from supply, but exemptions allow them to avoid this ban (P, POM, GSL) and MHRA polices the exemptions.
What is MHRA and what are their aims?
Medicines and healthcare products regulatory agency and MHRA aims to;
- PROTECT THE PUBLIC (regulate and ensure acceptable risk vs benefit ratios of new products);
- PROMOTE PUBLIC HEALTH (by encouraging understanding of use of products);
- IMPROVE PUBLIC HEALTH (by ensuring appropriate products are available).
What is PUMA?
It is the new licensing system for children’s medicines granted by the European commission in September 2011 (Paediatric Use Marketing Authorisation).
What is tort law? What are some examples?
A tort is a civil wrong that unfairly causes someone else to suffer loss or harm resulting in legal liability for the person who commits the tortious act.
It is a part of the civil law.
Other torts are breach of confidentiality or defamation
What is the most common tort in healthcare?
Negligence; three things need to be proved
Battery = treatment without consent
What needs to be proved to show negligence?
- a duty of care between HCP and pt
- a breach of this duty of care
- this breach has caused harm to the pt
These three things are proved on ‘balance of probabilities’ unlike criminal law. Pharmacists need to be able to recognise potential risks and intervene to prevent harm to the pt, while exercising professional judgment and discretion.
No-one can consent to treatment on behalf of an incompetent adult BUT treatment can be given on the basis of ___ _____.
best interest
______ of ______ can be invoked for emergency tx.
doctrine of necessity
Principles of ethical decision making are:
Beneficence - bringing benefit to pt or others
Autonomy; respecting pts decision reg their own healthcare and future
Non-maleficence; not causing harm to pt or others
Justice; fair, everyone has rights
Purpose of consent:
moral consent
clinical consent
legal purpose
Under the consent law, a valid consent is when one has:
- capacity to decide: weigh in the balance to make a choice, understand the info provided, retain info
- sufficient information; material or significant risks must be disclosed, if not it is tort
- acts voluntarily; no pressure or under influence either to accept or refuse treatment or care
Define Gillick competent
A child who is capable of understanding and who has the intelligence to understand fully what is proposed.
Confidentiality is a _________ obligation and ______ ____. Confidentiality can be breached with: _____, for ____ _____, ‘_____ to self, third party or public’ or in the ___ ____ of a person without capacity.
professional moral duty consent public interest danger best interest
The statutory requirements to break confidentiality are:
Certain Infectious Disease Road Traffic Act Abortion Act 1967 Misuse of Drugs Act Prevention of Terrorism Act Health and Safety Act 1974
Health and Safety Act
1974
Abortion Act
1967
Schedule 17 of HMR 2012 states
the persons and organisations that are permitted to sell, supply and administer wholsesale medicines
Schedule 22 of HMR 2012 states
the persons and organisations that can obtain medicines by wholesale
Regulation 237 states
it is unlawful to sell or supply both products (pseduoephedrine and ephedrine) at the same time
Regulations 217 and 28 states
information required for a Rx to be legal
Regulation 225 states
pharmacist should interview patient before emergency supply
Regulation 226 and 247 states
can relax ES if pandemic exemption
When can you supply ES without Rx?
PGD PSD Pandemic exemption Emergency supplies Optometrist or Podiatrist written and signed order
Which Rx are not repeatable
CD 2 and CD 3, NHS Rx
Retain POM for how long?
2 years
Retain CD for how long?
2 years
What is exempt from record keeping?
CD 2 (register) and oral contraceptive
During what circumstances do pharmacies not need a WDA(H)
- transactions take place on occasional basis
- quantity of medicines supply is small
- supply is not for onward wholesale distribution
- medicine supplied is not for a profit basis
What to consider when kid is picking up meds?
Counselling Knowledge of the child Local practices Maturity of the child Nature of medicine(s) supplied Prior arrangement Proof of identity Reason for collection