Pharmaceutical industry

Drug Project The drug that was chosen to be written on was Ketamine. Its chemical name known as Ketamine Hydrochloride. This certain drug is sold under the brand name of Ketalar. It is known as a Schedule III here in the US. The Ketamine drug is called many names on the street; Cat Valium, Cat Tranquilizer, K, Special K, Super K, Vitamin K, Kit Kat, Purple, Jet. Those names are used when referring to them in clubs and raves where Ketamine is mostly abused. The history of Ketamine goes back…

Identify and describe the market for the service Many youth patients spend some part of the day without adult supervision and need assistance staying adherent to their medication therapy. The organizer can be programmed to release only the accurate doses at the appropriate time. Many pillbox organizers do not have a locked safety feature or a reminder feature for children. The customers we are targeting in our study are pediatric patients that are living with more than one chronic disease.…

case is 35-years-old woman who has been struggling with her sleep since her husband has been away. Whereas with the industry, PSR want to persuade doctors to use and prescribe their drug. They want to point out the benefits in comparison to the competitor. When it comes to industry, minimal thought is really put on the consumer regarding evidence based health benefits. The industry is truly focused on getting that physician to move away from their gold standard or add to it, with their product.…

If such Moralzac pill was approved by the FDA, I would consider the problem in hand before its prescription. To elucidate the issue based on the eight step decision-making method I would consider the following: first, I would identify the client’s problem. Second, I would seek more reliable information regarding the effectiveness of the pill for such problems and its negative side effects. I would skip step three and would go to fourth step; at this time I would consider consulting with other…

During the last few years there has been an ever increasing shortage of critically needed medications, from 2005 to 2010 the number of shortages has tripled (Obama, 2011). The fundamental problem can be identified as an inability in the market to find and reward quality sterile injectable medications. This inability bolsters price competition and incentivize poor quality. The lack of focus on quality frequently leads to needed medication not reaching customers due to quality concerns. In 2011…

Would you believe it if there existed a product that can help with anxiety and headache pain? What if this product was completely natural, and doesn’t contain any unknown ingredients found in typical pain relief medicines? And what if this natural medicine can also help people who suffer from diseases such as epilepsy and even cancer? Would you believe it? Believe it or not, this product does exist and is better known as cannabidiol or cannabis oil. Cannabis oil derives from the plant…

Safety Process: Six Rights and Three Checks The administration of medication is an integral component of the healthcare provision in the modern world (Koehler & Schwinghammer, 2008). It is necessary for nurses to understand the fundamental ideals that seek to safeguard patient safety and ultimately ensure safe outcomes in relation to the administration of drugs (Koehler & Schwinghammer, 2008). The observance of the Six Rights and Three Checks principles are an example of measures that are…

One of the most important tasks for me to complete as a pharmacy technician, is the accurate counting of prescriptions. During this situation, I receive written messages from my fellow technicians who have to decode the prescriptions that the doctors will send to us for patients. These most importantly consist of how much of each medication a patient needs dispensed. Occasionally I have to count all over again due to loosing track because of noise in the workplace. For this profession, accuracy…

The patients at the Psychiatric Healthcare Facility were put under increased stress today because they had their environment changed. The floor needed to be stripped and the patients were sent to the gym for the day while this was being done. This type of change can cause acute anxiety for some and while decrease anxiety for others because some patients get bored of being confined to just one place. There are different levels of anxiety ranching from mild, moderate, severe and panic. As the…

Behavioral medication is a field of science that applies biomedical science knowledge to prevent, diagnose, and treat disorders that affect the development, behavior, and psychological mindsets of diagnosed individuals in order to improve mental health and reduce major symptoms. This includes anxiety, depression, asthma, cystic fibrosis, diabetes, and substance abuse (Behavioral Medicine). However, treatments are expensive and prescribed medications do not work for everyone. In fact, a study in…