PHAR2822 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Combined Oral Contraceptive Pill, Bioethics, Consumerism
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Introduction and using first names if you know them. Involving patient and carers as partners with honest open disclosure, consent, culturally respectful and knowledgeable. If you don"t know anything, you ask about it. important. Objective is to provide patients and carers with the information they need when they need it. Understanding differences in religious and cultural beliefs, individual needs. Knowing how to include patients and carers in discussion and when to use interpret services. Delegation of tasks give other options with staff and clients. Relevant questions, be succinct and aware of what is going on. Sensitivity; forget to be sensitive with other feelings, effective communication. History of communication as an ethical standard: the dichotomy. Professional discretion as an ideal: (cid:498)privileged communication(cid:499) (cid:498)an evasive reply, which conveys little or no information, is advisable(cid:499) 1970s: gradual shift from prohibition towards allowing a pharmacist to (cid:498)exercise his own judgment in deciding to discuss medications with patient or not(cid:499)
