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| List the tenets of professionalism for pharmacy students |
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| altruism, honesty and integrity, respect for others, professional presence, professional stewardship, dedication and commitment to excellence |
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| make an unselfish commitment to serve the best interests of the patient above your own |
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| maintain academic honesty and personal integrity in the classroom. preserve patient confidentiality, treat situations with proper candor, standup for what is right. |
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| treat others as you want to be treat |
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| establish trusting relationships with patients, peers, and other providers, maintain a professional attitude and appearance, have an enthusiastic attitude and personal commitment to the profession |
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| actively participate and engage in school, organizations, and other worthwhile endeavors in the profession of pharmacy |
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| dedication and commitment to excellence |
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| strive for excellence and assume responsibility for your learning and professional development |
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| pharmacy profession and professional |
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| primarily responsible for the safe, accurate, and efficient drug distribution, the profession has also embraced the paradigm of pharmaceutical care, which involves assuming the responsibility for drug therapy outcomes. they are actively caring for patients. pharmacists should be true professionals, responsible patient advocates committed to achieving optimal therapeutic outcomes |
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| challenges to pharmacy students professional development |
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| levels of disillusionment or disenchantment develop when they attempt to apply skills or knowledge in real life situations, only to have a pharmacist discourage such behavior as unnecessary or impractical. Increasing financial pressures have made the less professional topics of third party reimbursements and margins on sales more important. the evolution toward pharmaceutical care has been limited by unresolved business issues rather than appropriateness of service. Academia has difficulty in understanding how to deal with this conflict and does not often appreciate what professional socialization entails. Pharmacy school curricula must reflect the fact that that professionalism is a continuous process. Curricula should expose students very early to positive professional practitioners. Pharmacists must reinforce positive professional socialization achieved in the educational environment |
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| Describe potential solutions to the problem of inconsistent socialization that may enhance pharmacy student professionalism, including recommendations for students, educators and practitioners |
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| Students have an obligation to provide feedback to educators and practitioners regarding their professionalism. Sutdents should develop their own plan of action for professional development. Plans should consist of measurable outcomes, including scholarly achievment, participation associations and activities and community service. This ideal time to introduce these is the first day of the program. Students should earn to assume more responsibility for patient care and for professional development. Develop and maintain a a portfolio throughout their pharmacy career. |
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| Describe how e-professionalism is expanding the number of professionalism issues |
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| Public delcaration of attitude and feelings about patients/situations can be seen as a lack of caring and compassion. It can also violate professionalism tenents of altruism, respect and honor. When social inhibitions are removed in online environments, people feel free to express thoughts and attitudes that they may repress in face to face settings. An impression, whether good or bad, about an individuals true self will be generated via online public personas. |
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| the attitudes and behaviors reflecting traditional professionalism paradigms that are manifested through digital media. It encompasses issues that potentially originate in private settings, but are rendered in public. |
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| Describe the philosophical considerations of e-professionalism |
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| One may question whether persons in authority should access and interpret personal online info when making decisions of porfessional nature. Once individuals knowingly display personal attitudes and behaviors online, they are no longer private and are subject to open interpretation by the greater community, including patients. Just because one person may believe it is worng to judge someone professionaly based on a private setting, that doesn't mean that others will hold that same philosphy. Protesting the fairness does not protect one from thsoe judgements either way/ .Even if it is publically available, using info outside the professional context is fruaght with potential misinterpretation. Is it right to penalize someone who is competent and professional in real life, but exhibits lapses of judgement online? If an organization is somehow connected to an online persona, then that organization should have a voice in how it is represented. How much control should an organization have over its members? |
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| Analyze a student's role in maintaining their own and others standards of professionalism |
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| The student plays a major role in maintaining their own and other's standards of professionalism. It is the duty of any and every student to police themselves and those around them, whether in an academic environment or workplace setting. Also, it is the student's role to learn the best professional behaviors from those individuals exhibiting them around the student and to employ these behaviors themselves. |
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| Apply the tips for maintaining professionalism within the scope of a pharmacist's practice |
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| Within the scope of a pharmacist's practice, tips for maintaining professionalism include viewing yourself as aprofessional mentors and role models for recent grads and students. They have the responsibility to set postive examples. They should reflect on how they can develop their own plan of professional development. they should recognize the primary care giving responsibility of pharmacy professionals. |
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