Pengantar (KIE… )

Communication and Ethics in

Pharmacy Practice

Why
What is
to be
When
How to do
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 Why do we need
communication skills??
 Health covers complex aspect
 Patients concern to their health

 Different knowledge, different

understanding and different
implementation
 Communication makes problem
clearer

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 Pharmacy has been defined as professional
Pharmacist is profession responsible for the
appropriate use of medicine, device and services in
order to achieve the optimal therapeutic outcomes

Pharmacy Practice :

• in the direction & administration of pharmaceutical services

• in drug regulation & control
• in the formulation and quality control of pharmaceutical products
• in the inspection and assessment of drug manufacturing facilities
• in the assurance of product quality throughout the distribution chai
• in drug procurement agencies
• in national & institutional formulatory committees 11
 What are the journals said?
 Pharmacists are believed as medication
consultants and sources of information for
healthcare professionals (Gade, 2003)
 Pharmacists are the most accessible and
trusted health care profession (Pharm
Med, 2002; Europe Readers’ Digest, 2008)
 Good communication creates better
management of drug use and increase
patient satisfaction (Schomer, 2000)
 More contacts, more roles for pharmacists
(Jones, 2000; Narhi, 2001; Worley, 2007)

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… and these are the medicines
which were given to the child.

Photograph: Noël
Cranswick

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The alternative route

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 What are the journals said?
 Pharmacist lost their monopoly in Iceland
(Morgall & Almasdottir, 1999)
 Pharmacist: an incomplete profession
(Denzin & Metlin, 1968)
 Pharmacist de-profesionalization
(Anderson, 2004)
 Pharmacists tend to less communicate for
repeated prescription or specific drug
request (Svarstad et al, 2004;
Puumalainen, 2005)
 High Professionalism in western, Low in 15
 Attitude
Education process for Knowledge
Pharmacist
Academic capabilities

Academic Communicating ( written & verbal ) to

capabilities
all kind of people (patients, health
care providers, government, etc)

Taking responsibility and being

critical to their work

Working independently and in

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cooperation
Communication in Pharmacy Practice Education

Providing information about medicine and

medicine use to all relevant target groups

To have knowledge of communication and

education skills

Awareness of the position of the pharmacist in

the society

Able to communicate (written & verbal)

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 Goals and Objectives
1. Expose students to the foundation of ethical thought
2. Help students build a more complete model for decision-making
3. Expose students to real world bio-ethical cases and their outcomes
4. Enable the student to become an autonomous learner and team player
5. Expose the student to contemporary ethical dilemmas in pharmacy to
help (him/her) to realize their reactions to tough issues
6. Train the student to become professionally responsible
7. Train the student to broaden (him/her) acceptance to differing points of
view
8. Train the student to seek out information to help in ethical decision-
making
9. Help the student analyze an ethical dilemma and to provide an opinion
grounded in reason
10.Discuss the pharmacy code of ethics 18
11. Explain how the interpersonal communication process relates to
pharmacy practice
12. Define the element of the communication model
13. Identify barriers and potential communication stumbling blocks in
pharmacist-patient, colleague and health care professionals
14. Define the element of non-verbal communication
15. Apply interpersonal communication skills to a pharmacist’s
interactions with patients, colleague and health care professionals
16. Explain how the interpersonal communication competency relates to
other facets of pharmacy practice
17. Demonstrate competency in the use of interpersonal skills in listening,
interviewing, sending group interaction and relationship development
18. Identify cultural issues and strategies for effective communication
19. Discuss the element of effective written and verbal communication
models
20. Identify the factors that determine how one person perceives another
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The pharmacists code of ethics
 Principle I
A pharmacist respects the covenantal relationship
between the patient and pharmacist
 Principle II
A pharmacist promotes the good of every patient in
a caring, compassionate, & confidential manner
 Principle III
A pharmacist respects the autonomy & dignity of
each patient
 Principle IV
A pharmacist acts with honesty & integrity in
proffesional relationship

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The pharmacists code of ethics (cont)
 Principle V
A pharmacist maintains professional
competent
 Principle VI
A pharmacist respects the values and abilities of
colleagues and other health proffesionals
 Principle VII
A pharmacist serves individual community
and societal needs
 Principle VIII
A pharmacist seeks justice in the distribution
of health resources
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PUSTAKA

1.Beardsley RS, et al. Communication Skills

in Pharmacy Practice. 6th Ed. Lippincott
Williams & Wilkins. Philadelphia. 2012
2.Berger BA. Communication Skills for
Pharmacists: Building Relationships,
Improving Patient Care. 2nd Ed. American
Pharmacists Association. Washington DC.
2005
3.Pharmacist talking with patient
4. Community Pharmacy Practice
5. Patient Assessment in Pharmacy Practice
6. dll
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Terima Kasih !

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