This legislation also gives the Government a drug licensing system, which other Acts don’t allow. • Health and Social Care Act (Regulated Activities) and the Essential Standards - The regulations describe the essential standards of quality and safety that people who use care services have a right to expect. This encompasses the appropriate protocols surrounding the administration of medication. • RPS Handling Medicines in Social Care Guidelines – The Royal Pharmaceutical Society
CU2624 ADMINISTER MEDICATION TO INDVIDUALS AND MONITOR EFFECTS 1.1 IDENTIFY CURRENT LEGISLATION, GUIDELINES POLICIES AND PROTOCOLS RELEVENT TO THE ADMINISTRATION OF MEDICATION ANSWER Health and Safety at Work Act, COSHH, the Medicines Act, the Misuse of Drugs Act, the Health and Social Care Act (Regulated Activities) and the Essential Standards, the RPS Handling Medicines in Social Care Guidelines, Health Act 2006 etc. 2.1 DESCRIBE COMMON TYPES OF MEDICATION INCLUDING THERE EFFECTS AND POTENTIAL SIDE EFFECTS ANSWER Paracetamol = Side effects of paracetamol are rare but can include Erythematous or urticarial rashes, fever, nausea and Mucosal lesions. Even more rarely, they can include Neutropenia, thrombocytopenia and pancytopenia ferrous sulphate = possible side effects are allergic reaction e.g. itchy skin rash, swelling of the face, lips, tongue or throat, or difficulty breathing or swallowing,constipation occasionally causing faecal impaction, diarrhoea, stomach pain, feeling sick and blackened stools. aspirin = possible side effects are black, bloody, or tarry stools, coughing up blood or vomit that looks like coffee grounds, severe nausea, vomiting, or stomach pain, fever lasting longer than 3 days, swelling, or pain lasting longer than 10 days; or hearing problems, ringing in your ears.
Dangerous abbreviations may still be used by pharmacy professionals. • How might gaining an expertise of roots, prefixes, and abbreviations used in the pharmacy field assist you in your practice? Is there a situation when it would be inappropriate to use abbreviations? How might patient safety be affected by pharmacy personnel who understand roots, prefixes, suffixes, and abbreviations? 2.
Unit 22; Research methodology for health and social care. By Umma Aiman – 1309081 * Explain the function of research in health and social care (P1) * Research Research is a systematic investigation and also a study of materials and sources to find out facts and reach new conclusions. Research has many different functions and purposes; identifying needs, highlighting gaps in provision, planning provision, informing policy or practice, extending knowledge and understanding, improving practice, aiding reflection, allowing progress to be mentioned and examining topics of contemporary importance. Moreover, the key features of research are; * Purpose - This is the overall aim of the research. * Rationale - The reason for doing
Administer Medication to Individuals and Monitor the Effects In this unit I will be discussing the effects that medication administration can have on some individuals. I will be looking at the legislation around administration, the common types of medication and their uses aswell as the procedures and techniques for administering medication. The control of medicines in the United Kingdom is primarily through the Medicines Act (1968). Some other pieces of legislation or policies and procedures relating to the administration of medication include Care Standards Act 2000, CSCI medication guidance, Care Commission Medication Guidance (Scotland), the Misuse of Drugs Act and many more. The Medicines Act 1968 governs the control of medicines in the UK for human use and for veterinary use, which includes the manufacture and supply of medicines.
Within each section the author brings up key points pertaining to medical assisting, as many would call it the need to know information. The effectiveness of the article would have to be that the writer used correct punctuation where needed, correct spelling and the writer used grammatically correct terms. This article seems to be what the writer may be looking for if they were to do research. From my prospective I feel that the article is well written and goes into many different aspects about the medical assisting occupation. If research is needed this is the article I would use to complete an assignment over medical assisting.
Current estimates put the market size at $221 billion, and it is projected to grow to $520 billion by 2014. With the ongoing aging of the population and forecasted growth in people age 65 and over, this growth in prescription drug use will continue to increase. Based on the Medical Expenditure Survey from 2002, the differences in utilization of prescriptions increases dramatically as people get older. For example, people from ages 35 to 44 use seven prescriptions per year . While those aged from 45 to 54 use twelve prescriptions per year and those aged from 65 to 74 use twenty four prescriptions per year.
Module 1 – Medicines and the law Why is a medicine policy needed in the care environment? • To comply with the Essential Standards of Quality and Safety set out in the Health and Social Care Act • To protect the well-being of care workers and individuals in care • To have clear policies and procedures on the control of medicines and other areas related to its management, staff and conduct There are laws and regulations which cover the handling of medicines. Click and drag the law to its description • Controls the possession and supply of many drugs – The Misuse of Drugs Act • Provides for the administration of care institutions – The Health & Social Care Act • Describes best practices for the handling
You have to make sure that all research is valid and reliable. Surveys, observation, and experimental studies are some example of data collection methods. To determine which data method to use all depends on what type of research you are conducting. As I mentioned earlier about the cure of cancer, this will have to require an experimental study, because you need for the data to provide a logical, systematic way to answer the question. I would suggest if you are a beginner investigator not to use this type of data
Global Introspection: Having one or more smart, ethical, and experienced drug safety experts to read the case details, and make a causality judgments based on their expertise in the field of medicine. (2) Causality assessment includes an evaluation whether the AE occurred in the expected drug’s pharmacological time frame, if no problems or symptoms were obvious before exposure to the drug, if no other medical conditions or medications could cause this AE, or if it is a dose response. Moreover, the causality assessment includes evaluation of the dechallenge/rechallenge information, biologic plausibility, positive in vitro or in vivo test, and similar findings in toxicity studies.