It was mid-morning on a brisk Saturday in late December. I felt exhaustion throughout my entire body, along with the desire to go home, take a nap and spend Christmas Eve with my family instead of on my feet all day during one of the pharmacy’s busiest days of the year with a thousand overwhelming tasks in front of me. I wasn’t exactly happy to be there, but I was scheduled to work from open to close and was making my way through the day as best I could. Suddenly, there was a small lull in the traffic at the counter and the pharmacist on duty gave me an assignment to take care of during the downtime. He explained to me that a prescription for a medication we didn’t have in stock had just been called in for one of our customers, and because …show more content…
We needed to call him and ask if he had enough left to get through the weekend, and if not, find another pharmacy in the area that had the drug in stock. I felt the weight of the situation before I even picked up the phone. Dutifully, I picked up the phone and dialed his phone number. “This is Taylor at the Hy-Vee Pharmacy. Did you have enough of this medication left to get through the weekend?” I asked. Sure enough, he said he didn’t and immediately seemed concerned. I explained the situation to him as calmly as I could, and said that I could see if any other pharmacies in the area could even partially fill his prescription so he could get by. I performed a local search of the Hy-Vee pharmacies in the area for the drug, hoping someone would have it on their shelf. According to the pharmacist, though, it was unlikely any pharmacy would keep it in stock. By some divine intervention, or just a great strike of luck, one area Hy-Vee had it in stock, and it happened to be the store located just ten minutes away from ours. Feeling relieved, I called the store and made sure they would we able to fill it, and they assured me they
The time I was lost at Walmart, I was six years old I was mad about something and that’s when I started wandering off somewhere until finally I turned around my mom was gone I looked all around couldn’t find her anywhere the feeling of me being by myself without know one being here with me to protect me or be here with me, I felt like I lost her forever and that I can’t find her anywhere because Walmart was like a huge store so it was gonna be tough to find her, after a while I started crying and calling her name “mom!”, at that moment one of the employees at the store helped me find my mom by operating on this entercom and called her name luckily I knew her name because if I didn’t how else will I suppose to find her, next they called her
About two years ago my closest friend passed away. As I sat at her bedside in the hospital I was shocked to see her in that stricken position. I wondered why was this happening to her?Why was she suffering needlessly? Since I was the age of 16, I have had the desire to help others. It first started with my neighbor Cheryl Conel. Cheryl was an intimately close neighbor of mine who I used to work for. As the years went by Cheryl and I became closer and our friendship strengthened considerably. She became my first strong female role model. Cheryl became very ill one day and learned that she had a Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection. This bacteria presented very suddenly and quickly caused her to lapse into a coma. I didn't understand at the time just how ill she was-- in my mind I thought she was going to recover and go home soon. I quickly learned that this bacteria is very difficult to eradicate and about a week later on December 9th 2009, Cheryl passed away. I was extremely devastated because I had just lost my mentor and my best friend. I wanted to learn mo...
Each drug was not necessarily in the same type of container and many drugs were not in a solid form. I had to know what form each drug was in and then figure out how they were measured in the various containers. The system used by Wal-Mart allowed the technicians to scan drug containers to then print a label, bottle the correct amount, and insure that the correct drug was selected. The scanner would not allow you to use the incorrect drug unless there was a system error. I also stocked drugs into their correct positions within the pharmacy. During midday, the prescriptions begin to arrive slower. I would be left with few prescriptions to fill, so I tended to learn what the pharmacist was doing or learn more of what the technicians did in their
...ort her actions, then Jack must do so as he is too responsible for making this situation known to the appropriate people. However, one must acknowledge how difficult this may be for Jack due to the long-standing relationship he has with Linda. It should also be apparent now that Linda’s actions are unjustifiable. She is not only acting unprofessionally and unethically by not delivering the medication but she is committing an illegal offence by falsifying records and stealing from the ward. To conclude, it is important to remember that the Department of Health and Children (2008) acknowledge that healthcare has originated in a world which is not flawless and that as humans, errors are possible. However, members of the healthcare system must try and prevent these errors from occurring where possible to ensure a high standard of care which is owed to the service users.
...nform the previous shift nurse who has made a mistake and conducted the medication error. Along with informing the co-worker, a right decision would be following the chain of command and report to the next person in authority at the hospital.
One must evaluate all parties involved. It can be argued that do to the lack of documentation or communication of the physician this was an act of negligence. A jury can decide that lack of documentation is sufficient evidence in finding a physician guilty of negligence (Pozgar, 2009). When we look at the role of the defendant which was the pharmacist not the physician his duty goes above just filling prescriptions, the duty of a pharmacist is to monitor the patient’s medication. In order for him to have achieved this properly he should have made sure he contacted the physician for further information even if the physician failed to communicate with him. Because of his actions the plaintiff is holding the pharmacist accountable for his treatment and that is not where all of the blame should be consumed. The argument that can be made for the pharmacist is that the pharmacist acted within his scope of practice and left everything to the physician. This situation can easily be construed as, if the physician needed further medications or if there were any adverse reaction then he would have contacted the pharmacist. Once again the prosecutor may argue that the pharmacist had a duty to follow up on any treatment that he provided to a patient. These arguments would be the most persuasive. These are the key elements in determining the case being argued. For example the pharmacist not following up with the patient’s physician may be
My heart began to flutter and my palms began to sweat profusely, because I knew what he was going to ask me. “Ma’am?” he said softly and so intelligently…”Will you do the honors of---?” I exclaimed, “YES!” He then smiled at me and said “Awesome, here you go” as he pushed the patient towards me and then turned around to walk away. My face appeared concerned, shocked and mostly, lost in front of the patient. My naïve mindset thought that this handsome Physician was going to ask me for lunch, but instead he was asking me to take the patient to the discharge lobby, I had already forgotten that I was a volunteer. So following the Physicians orders, I rubbed my palms onto my pants and gave myself a pep talk and pushed the patient towards the exit. All the while pushing the patent, I kept thinking of all the germs that this patient had come into contact with, along with the sickness they still possessed. It was terrifying to consistently look down at the patient wearing a discharge gown with old yellow stains that could either be from orange juice or bodily fluid. My guess was orange juice, just so that I would not freak myself out even more than I already had. I approached the exit door, dropped the patient off and quickly made my way towards t sanitizing station. One pump, two pumps, and then three pumps of sanitizer, just to make sure that my hands were thoroughly clean with the ninety-nine percent germ
Amy is a medical administrative assistant (MAA) at B&SC Internal Medicine. She received a call from a 55-year-old patient requesting an immediate appointment because he was having an ongoing migraine due to uncontrolled hypertensor (high blood pressure). The pain became so bad he became lethargic, fell, and got a contusion on his head. The fall prompted a seizure. Amy sent a note to the triage nurse via the EMR messaging center. Amy’s note said, "Mr. X requested an immediate appointment due to an uncontrolled migraine and hypertensor (low blood pressure)."
I had to include the name of the patient, medical record number, date, time, details of the incident, whether it was an actual incident or a near miss, and who was affected. Initially, I was worried that the resident doctor would think of me as spiteful but then my team leader reminded me that this was for patient safety and he needed to be aware of the mistake he had made. Also, by reporting the incident it would be helpful in avoiding problems like this in the future. As stated in the CNO Practice Standard on Medication (2015), “Nurses promote safe care, and contribute to a culture of safety within their practice environment, when involved in medication
On my first day of week three clinical at 0830, client W and I were on our way to the dinning room and client B asked me to put his jacket on, so I told client W that I would meet him in the dinning room. After I helped Client B, I was on my way to the dinning room and nurse A told me that client W was experiencing difficulty breathing and we needed to give him his 0900 inhalers earlier. He was having audible wheezing and rapid respiratory rate. Therefore, we had to give client W his inhalers, SalbutaMOL Sulfate, which is a bronchodilator to allow the alveoli in the lung to open so th...
In one particular circumstance, on the second and final day of my placement, a patient entered the pharmacy to collect their prescription items. As the patient came in, the pharmacist told me that I would be responsible for giving the
The health experience of the guest speaker involves the long and challenging journey in her fight through breast cancer. For the sake of confidentiality, my patient will be referred to as Mrs. M throughout this paper. Throughout her presentation she explained the steps leading up to her diagnosis, her experiences through chemotherapy and radiation, as well as her thoughts, feelings, and emotions during the most difficult time in her life. This paper will discuss the various determinants of health that have shaped her health experience, abstract concepts that stood out throughout the presentation, personal assumptions, and the overall meaning of her illness. Health Experience Narrative
I have chosen this particular incident as administering medication is a common responsibility that I will be doing in the fulfilment of being a student nurse and in accordance for the national competency standards for registered nurse (NMC, 2010). Reflection is a tool for assessing the professional actions comes with personal belief and values (Bulman & Schultz, 2013). The most common responsibility of a nurse is the administration of medications. During my CPU class where we role plays some of the responsibilities of a nurse in preparation for
I followed my humdrum routine, arriving for work on time, punching in, and returning to the front to begin my shift. The store was mostly calm, except for the constant beeping of the registers, the bickering of elderly couples, and the hum of activity swirling about the manager's desk. In other words, there was nothing out of the ordinary at all at good old PharMor. I was used to the noise, to the persnickety comments from customers, and to our sarcastic managers. Just when I thought I'd heard every possible complaint, seen every possible accident - it got worse.
Community pharmacist (CP) is highly competent and the most accessible health care profession to the public in the UK. It is estimated more than 550 million visits to community pharmacy take place in the UK annually. There are roughly 32000 qualified CP serving in 13000 community pharmacies in England. Standing on the front line of health care, the quality of the service provided by pharmacists is of the utmost importance. In order to deliver a patient orientated health care service, public perspective of pharmacy and the service provided should be taken into consideration and this is the primary objective of the group research project. This group research project studied public opinion of health care, accessing pharmacies and medicines,