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There is a lack of support from physicians as a separate medication ordering system will be used, creating an increased in workload and reduction in patient interaction time (Park et al.,

For example, Tennessee Exit Disclaimer initiated a partnership with the Tennessee Pharmacists Association to provide up to $675,000 in grants to 124 independent, community pharmacies to offset e-prescribing expenses. (4) Unsettled standards. Nationwide network still misses essential rules and standards for e-prescription messages and their validation, drug terminology and classification, application forms, medication lists and many other meeting points among physicians, pharmacies (both chain and independent) and providers. Uneducated clinicians and low PMP integration. 72% of primary care physicians are aware of their state’s PMP

Medication Adherence Reflective Writing Shaymous Juhnke As a P1 student in SDSU’s pharmacy program one of the activities required to prepare us for real world pharmacy practice would be to take part in a medication adherence simulation. The goal of this activity is to put ourselves in the patients shoes to get an idea about how patients adhere to their regimens in the real world. Through this activity I have learned that it is not always easy to take medications at the right times.

A quick glance at the principals behind the Pharmacy Automated Kiosk option broadly gives three key takeaways. Firstly, recognizing the role of pharmacists to help ensure that medication therapy is safe, effective, equitable, patient-centered, and results in quality outcomes; Secondly ensuring that all Americans have timely access to prescription medications that are provided accurately and efficiently; and last but not the least expanding the use of health information technology to support full integration of pharmacists as part of the health care delivery

REVIEW OF LITERATURE Benjamin DM: according to him reducing medication errors and improving patient safety have become common topics of discussion in United States. Federal and state legislators, the insurance industry, pharmaceutical companies, health care professionals, and patients are worried about the error scenario in the country. According to him improving the judicious use of medications and minimizing adverse drug reactions have always been key areas of research and study for people working in clinical pharmacology, added to the older terms of adverse drug reactions and rational therapeutics, the now politically correct expression of medication error has emerged. The word error has drawn attention to another term "prevention" and all

Our solution to medication errors is here, it is just a matter of implementing it into our

One of the ways to reduce the amount of readmissions is to have the pharmacist call the

Goals which include improving staff communication, patient identifiers, and medication safety helps to improve quality care; by improving quality measures we can also reduce costs p4. For example Medicare has stopped payments for hospital based medication errors, measure have been implemented and pressure has been placed of providers to prevent costly errors. As a preventative measure hospitals have placed into effect a computerized physician order entry (CPOE), electronic medication administration record (eMAR), smart pumps and designated areas where nurses can prepare medication

The results of this study are quite frightening, but one must know that clinicians in general override more that 90 percent of the drug interactions alerts and 77 percent of the drug allergy alerts. This high override rate of all alerts suggest that most clinicians see the utility of electronic medication alerts as very insufficient. The clinicians would rather have a system that alerts on e-prescribing at the right time for the right patient. This means that clinicians would like the system to be improved and separate out patients who have used a

Researchers built a survey about pharmacists and provided willingness to dispense medications that sometimes conflict with religious doctrine, 668 pharmacists participated in this survey, 13.2% of pharmacists in total 85 pharmacists stated clearly that they would refuse to dispense at least one medication but are willing to transfer the prescription to another pharmacist, and another 4.5% in total 29 pharmacists stated clearly that they would refuse to fill two or more medications but are willing to transfer them to another pharmacist. There are many pharmacists refusing to dispense medication such as contraception, but willing to transfer the prescription to somewhere else, which is shown in this survey. Area or personal religion beliefs should not affect any patients medication needs. According to the results of the survey, even though many pharmacists stated that they do refuse to dispense medication, they are willing to transfer the prescription to another pharmacist. Therefore, patients should be allowed to choose which pharmacist they prefer, thus meet their medication

6. If monitoring medications, contract with client or solicit assistance from a responsible caregiver. Pre-pouring of medications may be helpful with some clients. Successful contracting provides the client with control of care and promotes self- esteem while establishing responsibility for desired actions.

Adherence or compliance of medication can be defined as the extent in which the behavior of a person, which includes taking medications, following diet, or executing lifestyle changes coincides with the health or medical advice (1). Medical non-adherence then means the number of doses which were not taken or were taken incorrectly that prohibit or affect the therapeutic outcome of the patient. Medical nonadherence of the patient may increase or prolong the severity of an illness, leading to increased expenses needed to the patient and health care system, potential harm to the patient as well as unnecessary work on the part of practice during the visit (6). It may also lead to the assumption of the physician based on the poor response to the medication. The physician may assume that the medication was misdiagnosed.

It has been notice that medication error is a problem on our unit. By doing some research it was found out that between 48,000 to 98,000 hospitalized Americans die each year due to medical error. Of this number 7,000 deaths are attributed by medication error. These statistics only report hospitalized based and no other health care settings like ours. As a result of the increase medical error incidents the Florida Legislative passed law mandating all health care professionals to do continuous education courses per on year prevention of medical errors.

In contrast, nurses encouraged to give prescription privileges for them. Over the world, prescribing permissions for pharmacists differs from country to country. In 2002, the United Kingdom approved and allowed pharmacists to prescribe any medications under therapeutic plan that is initiated by an independent prescriber. Later on, to increase patients’ access to medications, legislations authorized qualified pharmacists for independent prescribing for medications with restrictions to controlled medications. In this case, certifications after training and testing are required to authorize pharmacists to be independent prescriber [23].

’s right to consent to treatment and that allows patients to negotiate an individualized treatment schedule” (2011, p.1). The solution provided by Dr. Farmer was for the healthcare providers to reach out to the patients and remove the