Question

talk about a pharmacist professional liability and malpractice issues?, provide examples

Answer 1

Pharmacist like any other profession have an expanded role that includes providing consultations and vaccinations with which comes accountability and increase exposure for professional liability claim.Issues and events examples like 'medication error','wrong dosage','adverse drug events' ,'being harmful to the patient sometimes even fatally' have been recorded.

Pharmacists move towards more complete healthcare services to an extend of providing cognitive services therefore more vigilant and greater responsibility is to be undertaken in the process of liability exposure.

Speaking on Malpractice,negligence concept is the most common and for which the elements of the case must include:Duty of care(here the pharmacist duty covers clinics,hospitals where they work).,breached the duty of care,breach proximity caused harm to the client (eg: the harmed patient demonstrates the harm being obtained as a result of pharmacists breach) and damages are the result.

Ensuring the patients health the pharmacists should engage in their culture of awareness through ongoing quality assurance programmes,benchmarking and bar code technology together with maintenance of open communication with clients to substancially reduce risk of harm.