T2 - Final Objectives Flashcards
What is OBRA 90?
- Enacted by the federal govt to improve understanding of medications by Medicaid beneficiaries
- Allows states to create drug utilization review (DUR) to manage purchasing and formulary decisions for state programs
What responsibilities were placed on the pharmacist after OBRA 90?
- Perform prospective DUR
- Provide patient counseling
- Maintain proper patient records
What are the components of OBRA?
- Prospective DUR
- Patient counseling
- Maintaining records
What is prospective DUR?
Is the prescription necessary and appropriate
What is the importance of patient counseling?
Making sure a patient is administering the drug correctly or having any side effects
Why is it important to maintain records?
Records but remain accurate and up-to-date
What are the factors of OBRA counseling?
- Patient counseling should be in person
- No cost to patient
- Written information may supplement patient counseling, but cannot substitute
What are the tips for patient counseling?
- Collect and update complete medical history
- Perform DUR
- warnunacceptable, recognized, and medically significant risk of serious harm or death to the patient
- Think patient first
- Take the time to councel
What are the patient counseling process steps?
- Prepare
- Assess
- Counsel
- Document
What is prepare in patient counseling?
- Prescription
- Patient profile
- Personal knowledge
- Prepare mentally
What do we asses for patient counseling?
- Physical, sensory, cognitive impairments
- Ability and willingness to use medication
- Knowledge about his/her health problems
- Disease and medication management
- Cultural barriers
- Literacy issues
- Emotional or functional barriers
- Non-verbal ques
How do we counsel a patient?
- open-ended questions
- Probing
- Reflective listening
- Summarization
- Empathy
What do we document during a counseling session?
- all documentarian that should be safeguarded to respect patient confidentiality
What should a pharmacist record in a counseling session?
- Offers to counsel and if accepted and provided or refused
- Counseling points provided
- Perceived level of patient understanding
What are questions of Indian health counseling?
- What did your provider tell you the medication is for?
- How did your provider tell you to use the medication?
- What did your provider tell you to expect?
What are we assessing when we ask “What did your provider tell you the medication is for?”
- Disease state knowledge
- Openness about disease state
What are we assessing when we ask “How did your provider tell you to use the medication?”
- Knowledge of directions/administration
- Morning or evening doses
- Importance of compliance
What are we assessing when we ask “What did your provider tell you to expect?”
- Medication onset
- Duration of therapy
- Common sider effects and how to manage
What is HIPAA?
Enhance data exchange: more effective and efficient for administrative & financial transactions
Improve healthcare information security and privacy
Gave patients rights to access their information, the right to seek details of the disclosure of information, and the right to view the pharmacy’s policies and procedures regarding confidential information.
What are the 3 major parts of HIPAA?
- Transactions: standard on what data to submit
- Security: allow practitioners access to internal and external info
- Privacy: protect patient’s health info
What is transactions?
electronic information exchange for financial or administrative healthcare activities
What is the purpose for transaction?
- Increase efficiency
- Improve info quality and accuracy
- Reduce costs
What is the security rule of HIPAA?
- Established national standards to protect personal health information
- Requires safeguards to ensure confidentiality, integrity, and security of electronic PHI
- Requires identification and protection against security or integrity threats
- Requires compliance of workforce
What are the privacy rules for HIPAA?
- National standards to protect medical records and other PHI
- Sets limits on use and disclosure of information without patient authorization
- Gives patients the right to access their health records
- No restrictions on disclosure of de-identified health information
What are the basic principles of HIPAA?
- Health info belongs to patient
- Patients should be informed about all the uses and disclosures of their health info
What is a CV?
Curriculum vitae
Written record of your professional experiences, academic training, service experience, research experience, teaching experience, awards, and notable accomplishments
What is the purpose for a CV?
highlight reel” for all of your accomplishments with the pharmacy profession and other relevant healthcare-related areas
What is a letter of intent?
- Describes your specific areas of interest to a specific employer, residency program, or fellowship program
- Opportunity to demonstrate your passion for the pharmacy profession
What is the purpose of interviewing?
- To get to know candidates on a more personal level
- Assess how they will fit into the program
- Assess how they will get along with the current staff
- Determine how to rank each candidate amongst all applicants
How should we budget for interviews?
- Business cards and cv
- ASHP mid-year clinical meeting
- Registration fees
- Residency interviews
- Business attire
- Thank you and postage