In a Walgreens pharmacy in Indiana, Abigail Hinchy dropped off her prescription and picked it up like she has done many times before. However, behind the counter was a pharmacist that didn’t uphold the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. The pharmacist (Audra Withers) shared confidential medical information about the client that once dated her boyfriend. Withers improperly reviewed Hinchy’s prescription history and shared the confidential information. Withers current husband had previously fathered a child with Hinchy.…
Layla Micheli Monica Malt LVN 121 11/17/2017 What were the Contributing Factors to the problems in this Case? Describe them by category below. Equipment (design, availability and maintenance) The Pyxis machine is designed to calculate patient medications and doses accurately and should have alerted the nurse when the dosage was too high for a pediatric patient.…
Rebecca was transported to the Okeechobee County Jail by me and while there a search of her purse and belongings was conducted. I found in her belongings a spoon with residue along with three used hypodermic needles. These items will be sent to the lab for testing. I also found Three Suboxone (buprenorphine and naloxone) 8mg/2mg sublingual film, and she admitted to not having a prescription for them.…
A male student reported receiving a prescription - strength ibuprofen pill from a peer named Marissa. The school officials questioned Marissa and conducted a search by looking through…
o I only meet Nicola once prior to today. o I got to her house at 11 pm or 12 am, I not sure of the exact time. o I saw Nicola and I thought she was high on something because, I have seen people high before.…
Best Factors to Buy Medication Analyze Kits Various drug test packages have been made available in the market by well-known producers. Individuals are generally in a predicament that why exactly they should buy these packages. Are the medication available with your local pharmacy technician are not safe anymore? Instead of giving increase to any further rumors, you should know the particular factors that cause making you to buy them. It is a known proven reality that druggists make use of cheap methods of promoting medications of which some of them are not genuine.…
Opioid diversion is certainly not a motive of respectable physicians, but it can become a by-product without regulations in place to prevent over-prescribing. While the goal of most physicians is to mitigate addiction, there are those that deliberately encourage the distribution of prescription opioids. Unfortunately, this “dealing” is not unfounded; physicians do indeed and perhaps will use their given ability and medical privilege to issue prescriptions in this malicious manner of opioid dispersal. In BMC Pharmacology and Toxicology, Dr. Mofizul Islam effectively discusses that the application of regulations in PDMPs would/will help to identify such questionable actions. This “fraudulent prescribing” and distribution of illegal substances is a formidable offense of which licensing boards must be made aware (2).…
While Pennsylvania is considering House Bill 1176: This bill would require the board of pharmacy to create a list of opioid analgesic drugs that incorporate an abuse-deterrent technology. Would also prohibit a pharmacist from interchanging or substituting an opioid analgesic drug, brand or generic, unless the pharmacist: verifies from the list under subsection that the substituted opioid analgesic drug has substantially similar abuse-deterrent properties to the originally prescribed drug; or obtains written, signed consent for the substitution from the prescriber for the interchange or substitution. Senate Bill 612: Would provide for a felony of the third degree if a person acquires or attempts to acquire a prescription or prescription order by knowingly misrepresenting or knowingly withholding information from a practitioner for the sole purpose of procuring controlled substances for abuse or sale, both Bills and three other are…
243 people, including doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals were thought to be suspects and questioned. They were taking money from health care, psychotherapy, and pharmacy. More than 44 people in Florida were arrested (Eichenwald, 2000). The company plead guilty to charges of them cheating the government health care (Eichenwald, 2000). Some of the facilities billed people for equipment they did not own, charged patients for treatments there were not needed or treatments that did not happen, or treatments that were needed but were never received (Eichenwald, 2000).…
Such a breach of medical prescriptions was not even followed up. The book illustrates the subjective nature of the hospital’s service delivery. Personal…
When pharmacists give prescribed drugs, sometimes people don’t use it for medical purposes, or they use it the wrong way. People will do anything just to feel good for a moment. They use prescribed drugs like any other drug in the world. The…
Drug abusers use various methods to avoid detection and obtain prescription painkillers for illegitimate uses. Many rogue physicians facilitate the drug abusers by illegally supplying the drugs. Other physicians do not have adequate training to recognize or address prescription drug abuse. Finally, pharmacists, the suppliers of most prescription painkillers, may be unable to detect potential drug abuse or, in the case of rogue pharmacists may promote it. State PDMPs intended to combat prescription drug abuse have made some limited progress but they do not, and cannot, live up to their potential for the numerous reasons outlined in this Article.…
INTRODUCTION: The health care industry has many components to its body. And because of this ever growing industry there are many chances and avenues to a person to commit fraud if that is their desire. There are many reasons that people commit crimes of this nature greed, fear, and/or misappropriation of funds just to name a few. When white-collar crimes are committed often times their victims are not aware themselves of being a victim of a crime.…
Stephanie has operated outside her scope of practice as a medical assistant (MAs). Many healthcare organizations hire MAs to reduce cost, improve patient care and to supplement the work of other healthcare professionals (Gray, Harrison, & Hung, 2016). Some of the clinical duties of MAs include taking a medical history, instructing patients about medication and authorizing prescription refills as directed by the physician (American Association of Medical Assistants, 2017). Medical assistants were not given authority or privileges by the American association of medical assistant to prescribe medication or practice as a provider. Mrs. Stephanie engaged in an unethical practice which could cost her to lost her job.…
Close Reading Assignment 2 Abirami Ramesh Class No: 1 The Fake Drug Industry is exploding, and we can’t do anything about it http://www.newsweek.com/2015/09/25/fake-drug-industry-exploding-and-we-cant-do-anything-about-it-373088.html The article on fake drugs around the world highlights how these fakes are able to propagate rapidly in the market and the harsh consequences they have on society.…