OUTLINE GENERAL PURPOSE:To inform SPECIFIC PURPOSE:To educate the audience about prescription errors. CENTRAL IDEA:To describe different ways to reduce the number of prescription errors. INTRODUCTIONAccording to the CDC1, from 2005-2008, 48% of people surveyed reported “using at least one prescription drup in the past month”. A. Dr. office visits – 74% involve drug therapy (2.3 billion medications) B. Hospital ER visits – 78% involve drug therapy (238.3 million medications) C. uspharmacist.com - “An investigation by a Boston newspaper of 51 Massachusetts pharmacies in 1999 revealed that 4% of prescriptions dispensed by community pharmacists contained errors; 88% of these involved the wrong drug or strength.” 2 MAJOR POINTS A.
Outlaw Abortion Life, most people believe that life begins when an organism has an active heart rate. Many believes that this begins at 5 weeks of gestation. At 5 weeks, the fetal heart will accelerate at a rate of 3.3 beats per day for the next month. According to Jennet C. Hopson, Science text book writer and instructor at San Francisco State University, fetuses are capable of feeling pain by week 12 to 13. I feel that abortion is wrong because it kills innocent children and I believe that all living beings should have the right to live.
Both are fit only by eye care professionals who have been through each company's certification procedure. | Who Is a Candidate? Orthokeratology is for people of any age who are nearsighted. The FDA has approved CRT for people with up to six diopters of myopia (-6.00 on your prescription); the VST approval is for up to five diopters. Astigmatism can also be treated: up to -1.75 with CRT, and -1.50 with VST.
* Passive Euthanasia - To end a person life by not taking the necessary and ordinary action to maintain life. This can be done by withdrawing water, food, drugs, medical or surgical procedures. * Physician-Assisted Suicide - Suicide accomplished with the aid of a medical doctor intentionally providing a person with an overdose of prescription medication. Assisted Suicide - Suicide accomplished with the aid of another person. * Physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia are legal and widely practiced in the Netherlands where:About 9% of all deaths were a result of physician-assisted suicide or euthanasia in 1990 * Virtually every established medical and nursing organization in the U.S declares physician-assisted suicide is unethical.
The board's responsibilities include conducting timely and comprehensive evaluations of emerging drug safety issues, and ensuring that experts--both inside and outside of the FDA--give their perspectives to the agency. The first meeting of the DSOB was held in June 2005. Surce: http://www.fda.gov/drugs/resourcesforyou/consumers/ucm143534.htm ow is a medicine approved by
They told me, that this item will added in next delivery. Then I checked each item for expiry date. I found that one item’s expiry date is next month and putted that item on the side of the bench and told the pharmacist. In accordance to company’s standard operating procedures, that item has to be returned to wholesaler, because it is short dated and might be not sold so quickly. Then I putted away all the stock ensuring stock rotation so that the new stock goes to the bottom of the shelf allowing the older stock to be dispensed first.
Death is a very serious thing that you cannot prevent, but what you can certainly do, is slow down the process by keeping your body healthy. In the United States Of America, more than 37,000 people die from alcohol use alone; This is according to The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Contrariwise the (CDC) does not even have a category for deaths caused by marihuana. It is more probable that you die by the use of alcohol, then from the use of marihuana. Not only can you die from alcohol use, but you can also end up hospitalized if you get intoxicated by it.
Production of their new caffeinated malt beverage was outsourced to the same contract brewery that makes Mike’s Hard Lemonade. The initial run was financed in part by a $100,000 investment from parents and friends, and by $50,000 in credit card debt. Identifying problems – The mixture of alcohol and caffeine. In September 2010, New Jersey's Ramapo College banned the drink After a Four Loko- infused bender sickened 17 students and six visitors. The next month, Nine students at Central Washington University were hospitalized after mixing excessive amounts of Four Loko with other alcohols.
The pharmacy was so busy that day and short staffed, which led to a preventable fatal error that changed Eric’s whole life in a matter of seconds. The pharmacist was charged for reckless homicide and involuntary manslaughter in the death of little Emily, but the technician did not face any criminal charges (Institute for Safe Medication Practices, 2009). It is important to know that medication errors can happen in any health care setting; however, they are preventable. According to the Institute of Medicine: Shaping the future for health. (1999), approximately 1.5 million people are harmed each year, costing health care facilities at least $3.5 billion in medical expenses.
In 1914, the Harrison Act came into effect which required all individuals in the medical field who dealt with opiates, morphine and other substances to register with the federal government so that a tax could be paid on the substances. This also marked a time of the beginning of serious penalties for drug offenses which includes fines and prison time. In 1920, the Heroin Maintenance Act was put into effect; this allowed individuals with Heroin addiction to be treated with a regularly administered dose of heroin. Unfortunately, long term studies determined that this type of treatment only prolonged the addiction of the individual which rather quickly put an end to medically obtainable heroin. In 1937, the depression had ended and effective health regulation was