Responsibilities of Health Care Professionals in Pharmacy

Running head: PHARMACY 1
Pharmacy
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PHARMACY 2
Pharmacy
Question Six: Responsibilities of health care professionals
a) Registered Nurse
 Maintaining and recording the patient’s medical reports such as well as monitoring of
their changes (Parry, Barriball & While, 2015).
 Ensuring the rules, regulations, and norms are strictly followed to maintain a complete
medical record.
 Diagnosing various disorders by analyzing the signs and symptoms of patients by taking
appropriate actions.
b) Doctor
 Diagnosing and prognosis the patients based on their core cognitive skills, knowledge,
and judgment by responding to the initial presentation of diseases and making the
clinical assessment.
 Examining patients by reviewing their medical history and administering the right
medication.
 Counseling the patients on their health and well-being.
c) Pharmacist
 Providing the required prescriptions and measuring the required dosage to all patients
 Monitoring drug interactions by checking and determining whether the medication
prescribed may decrease or increase the effectiveness of another drug (Smolowitz et al.,
2015).
 Cooperating with clients on their general health by providing guidance and advice on
taking nonprescription remedies.

PHARMACY 3
Question Eight
a) Human error
The person-centered approach is based on errors that are as a result of human
weaknesses. As per the model, the reduction of the error involves the identification of the
disparity between persons and by focusing on these who make most errors. In this approach, one
is more likely to create fear by involving the retributive sanctions while clasping others as
responsible for the mistake (Uhlmann, Pizarro & Diermeier, 2015).
Whereas, a system- focused model approach involves the errors that are as a result of
systems of which health care specialists form only one part. The approach addresses the tasks
together with the environmental factors that have high chances to be more efficacious than
disciplinary action. Good example is individuals who make most errors are seen as people who
carry out the most jeopardized tasks in the most challenging environment. Institutions that are
utilizing the systems approach seeks to reduce the mistakes by reckoning at the variety of factors
such as the institution itself and its policies. In the healthcare setting, this would involve the
utilization of incident reporting or any other methods to establish errors and share lessons learned
as well as modification of the system. This approach is aimed at reduction of possibilities of
occurrence of an error in the future. For an instant, if two strength of the same type of drug is
stored together in similar packaging, then there will be high chances of dispensing errors and
identifying this issue could result to solutions such as modifying how these medications are
stored for better identification.
b) The “Swiss Cheese Model.”
The Swiss Cheese Model of systems error provides defenses, barriers, and safeguards as the
best ways to avoid errors in the system approach. As per the model, the series of obstacles are in