Question

1. What are the qualifications of a medical assistant, their responsibilities and their code of ethics?
2. What the purpose of medical records.
3. Define the practice of pharmacy, their duties and responsibilities, and their expanding role.
4. Define legal and ethical issues relating to administration of wrong medication as cited in our textbook.

Answer 1

1. Qualification : Graduate from postsecondary education programs.

Responsibilities : Interview patient to verify patient information , record medical history , help patients by providing information , maintains medical supplies inventory , helping with office procedures , updates job knowledge , secure patient information and maintains patient confidence.

Code of ethics : To participate in additional service activities aimed toward improving the health and well -being of the community.

- To seek to continually improve the knowledge and skills of medical assistants for the benefit of patients and professional collegues .

- To uphold the honor and high principles of the profession and accept its disciplines.

- To respect confidential information obtained through employment.

- To render service with full respect for the dignity of humanity.

2. Purpose : To foster quality and continuity of care. It creates a means of communication between providers , between providers and members about health status , preventive health services , treatment , planning , and delivery of care.

3. Practice of pharmacy that deals with the way patients , their families , healthcare providers , should receive and use medication , information about medication and instructions for use.

Duties and responsibilities : dispense prescriptions , communicate with prescribers , counsel patients , ensure patient's safety , deal with insurance companies .

Expanding role : Pharmacists must promote rational drug therapy .

Pharmacists must accept their mission to foster optimal patient outcomes from medication use.

Pharmacists must be in charge of drug product acquisition , distribution and control .

Pharmacists must ensure patient safety in the drug use process.

4. Ethical issues related to administratiobn of wrong medication categorized under 4 principles .

Autonomy and right to self -determination.

Beneficence and nonmaleficience .

Disclosure and right to knowledge .