Law, Ethics and Professionalism

How many consecutive terms can presidents, past presidents, and elect past presidents remain on council for

How many consecutive terms can presidents, past presidents, and elect past presidents remain on council for

5 years

How often does the council meet annually

3 times

how many members does the college council have

6-24

Laws

overall all rules that are passed by the legislative branches of federal, provincial, and local governments to guide conduct

Regulations

Legislated rules and procedures that exist to carry out the law

Standard

Benchmarks or desired normal level of quality for a product or professional performance

Ethics

following a code of high professional standards

Drug

includes any substance or mixture of substances manufactured, sold or represented for use in

What are the four primary typed of oversight

laws, regulations, standards, and ethics

define public administration

must be carried out by a non profit/ by public authority

define Comprehensiveness

all necessary services must be insured/covered

universality

all persons insured must receive uniform coverage

portability definition

insured services must be maintained when an insured person moves or travels

accessibility definitions

services must be unimpeded by financial or other \n barriers

when are Hospital Services insured

provided to in-patients or out-patients, if the services are medically necessary for the purpose of maintaining health, preventing disease or diagnosing or treating an injury, illness, or disability

how can financing be addressed?

through the payment of premiums (as in British Columbia), payroll taxes, sales taxes, other provincial or territorial revenues, or by a combination of methods

Describe schedule A in the food and drugs act

isease stated or conditions for which treatments may not be promoted to the public

Describe schedule B in the food and drugs act

Publications describing official or international standards

Describe schedule C in the food and drugs act

radiopharmaceuticals

Describe schedule D in the food and drugs act

allergenic substances, blood derivatives, immunizing agents

Describe schedule G in the food and drugs act

controlled Drugs

what is on the prescription drug list

drugs excluding those found in the Control Drug and Substance Act

what is part G of the food and drug regulations

controlled drugs

what is part J of the food and drug regulations

restricted drugs

define practitioners

refers to a person who is entitled under the laws of a province to treat patients with a prescription drug and is practicing their profession in that province

what is a child resistant package

a child resistance package is a package that meet s the child test protocol requirement of the Canadian Standards Association or other standards as specified in the Food and Drug Regulations.

what activities can the DEL permit

fabricate or manufacture drugs;package and/or label products;test drugs;distribute various classes of drugs:import or wholesale drugs

how is manufacturing enforced

federally

how is compounding enforced

provincially

Apprentice

________: means a registrant in a conditional register or a student (pharmacist or technician) who has entered into training with a preceptor in order to become a pharmacist or pharmacy technician.

Therapeutic equivalent

________: a drug product that can be expected to have the same clinical effect and safety profile as another drug.

Counsel

________ "is advice as to how to improve the respondent's practice.

DIS PMP

________: means the provincial drug information /prescription monitoring program.

sufficient knowledge

The pharmacist has ________ of the clients condition and current clinical status relevant to the prescribing decision; and.

Competency

________ and ethics are tightly intertwined and the CoE (code of ethics) is applicable to all pharmacy practice whether direct patient care or otherwise.All registrants are responsible to the College and therefore the public for application of the CoE in the context of their professional environment.

professional

The ________ is in a power position as a result of possessing specialized knowledge that the patient requires and the patient is vulnerable by virtue of being in need of that knowledge.

The Canada Vigilance Program

is Health Canadas post-market surveillance program that collects and assesses reports of suspected adverse reactions to health products marketed in Canada

Purchaser requirements

the licensed dealer is only permitted to sell to persons registered with the Pharmacy Regulatory Authority

A pharmacist may, on receiving a written order for a narcotic

(b)sell or provide to another pharmacist the quantity of the narcotic that is specified in the order as being required for emergency purposes, if the order is signed and dated by the other pharmacist then immediately record it

Loss or theft

reports of any loss or theft of controlled substance or precursors must be submitted to health Canada Office of Controlled Substances (OCS)

who can order controlled substances

anyone with signing authority

what is a straight narcotic

CONTAINS a single narcotic ingredient only, CR contain a narcotic and only ONE medicinal; ingredient other than a narcotic in a recognized therapeutic dose,

how are Controlled Drug Preparations= one Controlled Drug + 1 or more medicinal ingredients dealt with

• not reportable in sales record

• repeats on written if authorized in writing the # of repeats and time interval

• No repeats on verbal

• transfers not permitted

how are Reportable Controlled Drugs= Straight Controlled Drugs= Reportable Sales Record dealt with

• Repeats allowed on written if indicated # of repeats and time interval

• no repeats allowed on verbal prescriptions

• no transfers allowed

• combinations containing more than one controlled drug

how are Verbal Narcotic Preparations= verbal prescription narcotics= non-reportable dealt with

• contains 1 narcotic + 2 non-narcotic drugs

• non-injectable

• does not contain heroin, methadone, hydrocodone, oxycodone and pentazocine

• no refills

• part-fills allowed

• no transfers

How are reportable/Straight Narcotics dealt with

• verbal order

• refills

• part-fills are allowed if quantity and interval are indicated

• Transfers not permitted

what is double doctoring

Getting a prescription without disclosing to the prescriber your prescription history

One law governs all drugs and substances in Canada, and all drugs and substances

Controlled Substances

Apprentice

means a registrant in a conditional register or a student (pharmacist or technician) who has entered into training with a preceptor in order to become a pharmacist or pharmacy technician

Device

means any article, instrument, apparatus or contrivance, including any component, part or accessory thereof, manufactured, sold or represented for use in

DIS/PMP

means the provincial drug information/prescription monitoring program

Drug preparation premises

means any place where drug preparation activities take place

Electronic transmission

of a prescription means communication of an original prescription or refill authorization by electronic means, to include computer-to computer, computer-to-facsimile machine, facsimile machine to facsimile machine, facsimile machine to computer or e-mail transmission which contains the same information it contained when the authorized prescriber transmitted it, but does not include a telephoned order

Pharmacist

Direct Client Care" means a pharmacist in active practice that had direct contact with clients for at least 400 hours during the preceding two-year period

Record

means the records of a pharmacy, whether in written, photographic, magnetic, electronic or other form, and includes, without limitation

therapeutic equivalent

a drug product that can be expected to have the same clinical effect and safety profile as another drug

Openness

Inform your customers and employees that you have policies and practices for managing personal information

Duties of Conduct

To hold forth the independence, integrity and honour of the profession

when should a pharmacist report loss or theft in the pharmacy

within 10 days of discovery

Benzodiazepine and Targeted drugs are non reportable and are only allowed 1 transfer with repeats T/F

true

How many consecutive terms can presidents, past presidents, and elect past presidents remain on council for

5 years

How often does the council meet annually

3 times

how many members does the college council have

6-24

how are Schedule F drugs= Regular Prescription Drugs dealt with

• refills allowed

• non-reportable

• verbal and written Rx

What do schedule I drugs require

require a prescription

what do schedule II drugs require

• Only available through professional intervention by a pharmacist

• Do not require a prescription

• Kept in a restricted area of a pharmacy not accessible to the public

what do schedule III drugs require

• available without a prescription

• However, they can only be sold in a pharmacy from the dispensary or from an area of the pharmacy (as required by the college) that allows for patient self selection.