• Cite a minimum of three references, beyond your text. • Post your paper as an attachment. Week 9 1. Capstone Discussion Question • How might pharmacy professionals help ensure patient safety when preparing and dispensing medication? How does the knowledge gained in this course help prepare you for a career in the pharmacy field?
Examples of interventions include developing a tickler file to remind staff to give the flu vaccine to appropriate patients, tracking forms in patient records, patient education materials, skill-workshops, live activities or enduring materials if the reason for the gap is a lack of knowledge or strategies, etc. Learning Formats – Internet Point of Care (PoC) 40. What’s the difference between PoC and online searching and learning? An Internet Point-of-Care (PoC) activity is a certified CME activity that is structured by an accredited CME provider and credit is only awarded for completion of a three-stage learning cycle. PoC activities only utilize databases that have been vetted by the accredited CME provider as meeting the requirement for professional, peer-reviewed literature using unbiased search algorithms.
Patients cannot fax in Rx. Approach: Ask for original,verify by calling the MD and obtaining a new oral Rx. 15. What are the requirements for a prescription that comes to your pharmacy over the internet? Are the requirements different for a controlled substance?
Unit 8 Project Questions: Part I 1. Under HIPAA, are you legally allowed to view this patient’s medical information? Why or why not? No, because you were not given permission by the doctor or patient. 2.
How are medical coding, physician, and payer fees related to the compliance process? Also covered in this essay is an overview of the compliance process as well as judgments either supporting or criticizing a particular
The Quality Indicators (QIs) developed and maintained by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) are one response to the need for multidimensional, accessible quality measures that can be used to gage performance in health care. The QIs are evidence based and can be used to identify variations in the quality of care provided on both an inpatient and outpatient basis. These measures are currently organized into four modules: the Prevention Quality Indicators (PQIs), the Inpatient Quality Indicators (IQIs), the Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs), and the Pediatric Quality Indicators (PDIs). Prevention Quality Indicators (PQIs)- The AHRQ PQIs are one set of quality measures that can be used to identify potential problems and ascertain disparities across regions, communities, and providers. They mainly focuses on preventive care services—outpatient services that assist individuals with either staying healthy or managing chronic illness.
* First, read about the pathophysiology of your patient(s) medical diagnosis(es). You may want to start drawing your concept map at this time. * Review head to toe physical assessment, and transfer to care map the relevant physical findings that correlate with your patient’s (s’) medical diagnosis(es) * Review remaining objective data (labs, meds, etc.) and transfer relevant items to diagnostics
Research in a Health and Social care setting In this essay, you will find out why research is useful in a Health and Social Care setting. Functions of research: One function of research is identifying needs. Health and Social care workers use research to identify the needs of an individual. The information from the research allows the professional to make decisions about suitable treatments and care plans suited to the individual. For example a doctor may take blood pressure and the heart rate of a patient and use it to find a treatment.
Identifying a need Workers in the health and social care industry have to plan every step they take, and every decision they make, and they use research principles to pinpoint the needs of an individual. In a doctors surgery, or in a hospital, the doctor takes a medical history of a patient in their first consultation, and he may take measurements such as blood pressure, their pulse rate, which may require blood samples so they can be analysed. It may come to the attention of a care home manager that one of her residents needs more assistance with their personal care, and they would then discuss this with the individual. Th e information that is gathered from these situations would then enable the professional to make decisions about treatments and care to meet the individual’s requirements. The precise needs of one
During the assessment the case manager inquires about current medical equipment utilized, insurance information, method of transportation, feeding regimen, and verifies the patient’s medications. The case manager also