PEBC - Ethics/Law & Canadian Healthcare System questions
with verified answers
· Alternative Medicine Ans✓✓✓ - Treatments that are used as a substitute for
conventional treatments
- Example: cancer patient who refuses chemotherapy and manages cancer with
herbal medications
6 Bioethical Principles? Ans✓✓✓ 1. Beneficence
2. Non-maleficence
3. Justice
4. Autonomy
5. Honesty/Veracity
6. Fidelity
Aboriginal health status: Ans✓✓✓ - Shorter life expectancy, higher infant
mortality, higher suicide rate
- Greater prevalence of chronic diseases
Active immunity? Ans✓✓✓ - lasting protection!!
After 3 years of therapy what side effects would be expected to develop?
Ans✓✓✓ Phase III
Ambulatory care Ans✓✓✓ - Ambulate means "to walk."
- Any outpatient care including primary, and emergency care but also include
visits to occupational therapists, podiatrists
,Artificial active immunity? Ans✓✓✓ vaccine
Artificial passive immunity? Ans✓✓✓ Serum from an immune individual used for
treatment
Autonomy Ans✓✓✓ · Respecting the patient's free will and decisions to
choose/refuse treatment
· If a patient has the capacity to make decisions, you should defer to the patient's
wishes
· Exceptions: patients who lack capacity and emergencies (e.g. when patient is
unconscious and you cannot get patient's consent).
· Example of violating autonomy: You choose a treatment for the patient when
there are many options without explaining the alternatives because "you know
whats best"
Beneficence Ans✓✓✓ Being of benefit to the patient by (promoting the patient's
best interest and well-being)
· Examples:
- Providing vaccinations for the general population
- Encouraging a patient to quit smoking and start an exercise program
- Talking to the community about STD prevention.
- Recommending therapeutic options to a patient
,- Dispensing a medication
- Counselling a patient
Benzodiazepines and other targeted substances Ans✓✓✓ - Are in their own class
of controlled and targeted.
- Can do written, faxed, and verbal rx
- Can do refills (written and verbal)
- ONE TRANSFER ONLY
- RX is NOT valid for more than a year after issuance.
Purchase record is required.
CADTH Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health Ans✓✓✓ ·
Independent not-for-profit organization funded by Federal and P/T governments
of Canada that provides recommendations and evidence regarding correct use of
drugs and devices to support healthcare professionals to make informed clinical
decisions
Do:
- Health Technology assessment
- Oncology Drug Review (pCODR)
Can pharmacists dispense medication samples to patients? Ans✓✓✓ -
Pharmacists may dispense samples if patient is aware
- Samples must be dispensed and labelled in compliance with labelling
requirements
, - Pharmacists may charge a professional fee (for clinical review and counselling)
but NOT the cost of drug
- Schedule I drug samples require prescription
- Schedule II, III and unscheduled drug samples do NOT require prescriptions
- If further packaging/labelling is not required, there should be no charge for
distributing non-prescription samples
Can you do refills with controlled drugs? Ans✓✓✓ Yes but they require intervals.
Canada Health Act gives what? Ans✓✓✓ · Provides a yearly sum of money called
the Canada Health Transfer to the P/T for "medically necessary" physician and
hospital services
Canada Vigilance Program Ans✓✓✓ - Part of MEDEFFECT
· Post-marketing surveillance: collects (provides portal for patients and providers
to report ADR) and analyzes all reports of adverse drug reactions of marketed
health products in Canada
· Marketed health products include:
- Prescription and non-prescription medications
- Natural health products
- Biologics (includes biotechnology products, vaccines, fractionated blood
products, human blood and blood components, as well as human cells, tissues
and organs)
- Radiopharmaceuticals
- Disinfectants and sanitizers with disinfectant claims
Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) Ans✓✓✓ Mitigate risks of food safety
with verified answers
· Alternative Medicine Ans✓✓✓ - Treatments that are used as a substitute for
conventional treatments
- Example: cancer patient who refuses chemotherapy and manages cancer with
herbal medications
6 Bioethical Principles? Ans✓✓✓ 1. Beneficence
2. Non-maleficence
3. Justice
4. Autonomy
5. Honesty/Veracity
6. Fidelity
Aboriginal health status: Ans✓✓✓ - Shorter life expectancy, higher infant
mortality, higher suicide rate
- Greater prevalence of chronic diseases
Active immunity? Ans✓✓✓ - lasting protection!!
After 3 years of therapy what side effects would be expected to develop?
Ans✓✓✓ Phase III
Ambulatory care Ans✓✓✓ - Ambulate means "to walk."
- Any outpatient care including primary, and emergency care but also include
visits to occupational therapists, podiatrists
,Artificial active immunity? Ans✓✓✓ vaccine
Artificial passive immunity? Ans✓✓✓ Serum from an immune individual used for
treatment
Autonomy Ans✓✓✓ · Respecting the patient's free will and decisions to
choose/refuse treatment
· If a patient has the capacity to make decisions, you should defer to the patient's
wishes
· Exceptions: patients who lack capacity and emergencies (e.g. when patient is
unconscious and you cannot get patient's consent).
· Example of violating autonomy: You choose a treatment for the patient when
there are many options without explaining the alternatives because "you know
whats best"
Beneficence Ans✓✓✓ Being of benefit to the patient by (promoting the patient's
best interest and well-being)
· Examples:
- Providing vaccinations for the general population
- Encouraging a patient to quit smoking and start an exercise program
- Talking to the community about STD prevention.
- Recommending therapeutic options to a patient
,- Dispensing a medication
- Counselling a patient
Benzodiazepines and other targeted substances Ans✓✓✓ - Are in their own class
of controlled and targeted.
- Can do written, faxed, and verbal rx
- Can do refills (written and verbal)
- ONE TRANSFER ONLY
- RX is NOT valid for more than a year after issuance.
Purchase record is required.
CADTH Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health Ans✓✓✓ ·
Independent not-for-profit organization funded by Federal and P/T governments
of Canada that provides recommendations and evidence regarding correct use of
drugs and devices to support healthcare professionals to make informed clinical
decisions
Do:
- Health Technology assessment
- Oncology Drug Review (pCODR)
Can pharmacists dispense medication samples to patients? Ans✓✓✓ -
Pharmacists may dispense samples if patient is aware
- Samples must be dispensed and labelled in compliance with labelling
requirements
, - Pharmacists may charge a professional fee (for clinical review and counselling)
but NOT the cost of drug
- Schedule I drug samples require prescription
- Schedule II, III and unscheduled drug samples do NOT require prescriptions
- If further packaging/labelling is not required, there should be no charge for
distributing non-prescription samples
Can you do refills with controlled drugs? Ans✓✓✓ Yes but they require intervals.
Canada Health Act gives what? Ans✓✓✓ · Provides a yearly sum of money called
the Canada Health Transfer to the P/T for "medically necessary" physician and
hospital services
Canada Vigilance Program Ans✓✓✓ - Part of MEDEFFECT
· Post-marketing surveillance: collects (provides portal for patients and providers
to report ADR) and analyzes all reports of adverse drug reactions of marketed
health products in Canada
· Marketed health products include:
- Prescription and non-prescription medications
- Natural health products
- Biologics (includes biotechnology products, vaccines, fractionated blood
products, human blood and blood components, as well as human cells, tissues
and organs)
- Radiopharmaceuticals
- Disinfectants and sanitizers with disinfectant claims
Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) Ans✓✓✓ Mitigate risks of food safety
