Module 3, advanced services & ethical issues

Question 1

Describe how changes to practice landscape and paradigm shift in pharmacy practice in Australia create complex ethical dilemmas and complexity in the provision of cognitive services…

Answer 1

• changes in the pharmacy practice environment has increasingly exposed pharmacists to more complex ethical dilemmas
• Pharmacists practising in rural communities experience unique challenges
• structured and sound ethical reasoning skills are essential as pharmacists are faced with contemporary challenges
• pharmcies attend to medication-related needs & patient-centred services as compared to previously product-based only needs

Question 2

What are the principles from the Code of Ethics?

Answer 2

Question 3

Why is privacy important?

Answer 3

• pharmacists need information about patients to make informed decisions
• patients only likely to disclose info if understood it will be kept priate and confidential and used for relevant purposes
• therapeutic relationship between pharmacist & patient
• access to private & confidential info creates combination of legal, professional & ethical obligations

Question 4

What is privacy?

Answer 4

• privacy: focussed on collection of information
• confidentiality: focussed on communication of info
• complementary to each other
• individuals have the right to disclose or conceal personal info at their own choice
• need patients permission/ consent to share information

Question 5

What is privacy legislation?

Answer 5

• regulates the collection, storage, use, access, disclosure and destruction of personal info
• personal info: means info or an opinion, whether true or not, and whether recorded in a material form or not, about an individual whose identity is apparent, or can reasonably be ascertained, from the info or opinion

Question 6

What are types of consent? What constitues a valid consent?

Answer 6

Types of consent

• verbal
• implied
• written

What constitues a valid consent?

• informed consent
• must cover the actual procedure
• consent must be voluntary given by patient
• legal capacity to give valid consent
• adults 18 years and older of sound mind have capacity to give consent