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. Cleanliness in the pharmacy is very vital to patients. The main reason people come to the pharmacy is to treat an illness, infection, or sickness. Giving patients medications that could possibly have bacteria on them is not what they want which leads to why infection rates in healthcare facilities are a major patient safety
I choose the articles for Cerner, for the fact that my employer recently bought a contract with the company. I have grown accustomed to the changes, and know the pros and cons of the software. “Cerner is an integrated database that provides a comprehensive set capabilities allowing health care to electronically store, capture and access patient health information in both acute and ambulatory care setting.” (www.medicalrecords.com Feb. 2012). With this system our facility is able to keep up with the patients’ history even if they were not seen for years. This complex new system has ways of looking up patient history and pharmaceutical information if a drug is not known.
When using an online physician, the patient does not know how secure the page, is and also, when credit card information is used, how does the patient know that the physician is a real doctor? Another ethical issue is that with online physicians, a patient inputs their symptoms and the physician generates a diagnosis, however no assessment is complete, and therefore, a patient could be misdiagnosed for example-the patient may put in that they have had a cold for several days, mild to no fever, occasionally has a productive cough-the physician may prescribe antibiotics to this patient, however the patient could have pneumonia or a sinus infection or both, so there is no way to diagnosis this over a computer with no physical assessment. A huge issue right now is “doctor hopping” and “pharmacy hopping” with online physicians a patient could go from doctor to doctor and get large amounts of narcotics because they are using different physicians that are from completely separate
(See Chapter 14, page 238–239 of your text for the reasons.) Medical records are an important part of the patient/Doctor relationship. The medical record has all of the medical notes, findings, test results, medications, and diagnoses of the patient that the Doctor uses treat the patient. They are the stepping stones that the physician has used to get to the heart of the health issue the patient has been experiencing. Medical records are the written history of the care and treatment given to the patient by the current physician and can be accessed by any future physicians (Adams, 2013).
Upon receiving a controlled prescription, the pharmacist will also call other pharmacies to check a patient history and then call the patient’s insurance carrier, if one is available, to check even further. This is a very time consuming process that could be made less extensive if the Medicaid lock-in program was a requirement. The doctors would only have one pharmacy to contact and the pharmacy would only have to check their own records to make sure the patient was due for the medication. The lock-in program would allow the doctors and pharmacists to do their job more effectively and use their time more wisely for patients who need genuine
Unit 4 assignment Kaplan University The profession that I am in Kaplan to learn is Medical Assisting. There are a view things that I have learned about this field that I didn’t know. As a medical assistant, you will perform administrative and clinical duties under the direction of physician. You will be responsible for keeping the medical office or facility running in a smooth manner. Your duties may vary depending on the state where you are located, but typical duties of a medical assistant include; * Taking and recording vital signs in medical history * Preparing patients for examination * Drawing blood * Administrating medication as provided by the physician * Discussing prescription
Even though there is a lot of trash-talking going on at the tea party, it is very proper, because even Scout is dressed lady-like. Scout just wants to sit there and be quiet so that she won’t say anything wrong. Then, Maudie says that Atticus’ food doesn’t stick while it’s going down. By that she means that his conscience is clear. “’Maudie, I’m sure I don’t know what you mean,’ said Mrs. Merriweather.
She takes the patients freedom away, and makes their stay at the hospital even worse. She does not let the men get a say in what they want, if they want something they get it after a long time, or they just do not get it at all. She knows the weak spots for all the patients, and just where to peck at them. The patients try to please her during the group meetings by telling her their darkest secrets, and then they feel deeply ashamed for how she made them act, even though they have done nothing. She maintains her power by the use of shame and guilt against the patients, making them feel horrible.
Madison Ph 100: T/Th 1pm Benchmark Part A Due 11/13/2014 Week 4 Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technician The roles and responsibilities of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians vary slightly, mostly in the duties a pharmacist takes on which technicians cannot perform. The pharmacist’s role in the pharmacy takes on more of a managerial position, while the technician is a supportive member. Within the pharmacy there are many duties which a pharmacist and technician can both perform, however the duty usually falls to the technician so the pharmacist is free to perform duties only the can perform. These responsibilities also change in different work environments, the most basic of which being community pharmacies, such as one you would find
Medical Billing & Coding My chosen career is Medical Billing & Coding. What is this career about ? Medical Billing is an essential part of the medical office world. Medical billers are people who are in charge of billing insurance companies and patients the bill of their health care. Medical Coding is an essential part of the doctors office and hospitals as they are the people who code the patients diagnosis so they can be processed as a bill and sent to the insurance companies and patients to pay for the service they have received.