In its basic term, a prescription is a direction from a physician to a pharmacy to prepare medication for a patient. Therefore, one of the main general principles of prescription is to control the patient’s treatment and to avoid possible negative effects from incorrect doses. Looking at the relationship between the patient and the physician, the latter always has more knowledge and experience about treatment and remedies. Therefore, the second general principle is that the physician usually shares his or her knowledge aiming to cure the patient and protect his/her life.
A prescription is an important element of a treatment plan. This treatment plan analyses all previous patient’s sicknesses and allergies in order to provide the safest way of treating his/her disease. In addition, a prescription usually acts as a legal act that shows serious intentions of a doctor to treat a patient. If something goes wrong, the prescription will be a crucial element in the case against a physician. Thus, today’s global pharmaceutical business excessively promotes many medications that force people to buy them. In many cases, people simply see the promotion and have a wish to buy medicine afterwards. Therefore, in many cases prescriptions protect consumers from buying unnecessary medications and help to avoid additional costs.
Lastly, a prescribed medicine always brings benefits and risks. Prescriptions can also be used in the lowest effective doses in order to monitor the efficacy of medications in a certain time period. Physician’s work requires serious knowledge and professionalism, and the process of creation of a prescription should always be properly evaluated and controlled by other healthcare organizations.
There are many different kinds of ethical issues pertaining to the emergency care. The reasons for them are also different, such as time limitations, lack of information about a patient, lack of experience of healthcare staff, or possible physical incidents that happen with patients. Due to the high number of patients that arrive in Emergency, healthcare staff always have limited time available in order to make the first check and recognize a patient’s situation. However, the ethical code insists that all patients should be treated equally.
There are several ethical principles in reference to the emergency care. Among them are obligations to remove the possible harm, respect for a person’s autonomy, contractualism or an agreement of moral behavior (McClelland 14). The main aim of the ethical behavior of emergency is to protect lives of patients, provide compassionate care, and show respect for all people that need help. Thus, there are three fundamental ethical elements that should be at the core of each emergency. First, the emergency should be fair and equitable. Thus, it should be focused on fulfilling the interests of a patient. In addition, one more important element is in respecting the patient’s autonomy. There are several more moral foundations of emergency care, such as quality, freedom of choice, affordability, compassion, mutual assistance, respect, and continuous studies to maintain the highest knowledge.
Lastly, the concept of emergency care is strongly interrelated with ethical considerations. The core ethical issues usually result in an inability of healthcare providers to fulfil their tasks, such as treating illnesses, reducing pain, minimizing suffering, and protecting life. With an increased number of ethical issues, emergency staff should focus their efforts on early elimination of them.
Works Cited
McClelland, Mark. “Ethics: Harm in the Emergency Department – Ethical Drivers for Change.” OJIN: The Online Journal of Issues in Nursing 20.2 (2015): 14. Print.