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What is the first action of a healthcare provider before giving a patient any medications?
-Asses patient health and obtain medication history (includes vitamins, herbs or food supplements)
What are the seven "rights" of drug administration?
1. Right patient
2. Right drug
3. Right dose
4. Right route
5. Right time
6. Right technique, right needle, right site
7. Right documentation
What is the major pro of over the counter drugs?
- takes burden off health care system, safety isn't the priority its economic factors
What are the three stages where medication errors occur?
- prescribing or ordering medication
- dispensing medication
- administering medication and monitoring for side effects
Why do medication errors occur? (5)
- miscommunication
- missing info
- lack of appropriate labeling by manufacturer or pharmacist
- environmental factors
- poor management
What happened in the sulfaniliamide disaster of 1937?
- company reformulated drug by dissolving sulfanilamide in diethylene glycol (anti-freeze)
What is an Orphan drug?
- used to treat diseases that affect fewer than 200,000 people
What is the Orphan drug act of 1983?
- offers financial incentives to nonprofit and commercial organizations to develop and market new orphan drugs in the United States
- provides 7 year monopoly on orphan drug sales, tax breaks to new drug developers