workplace ethical dilemma

workplace ethical dilemma






Workplace Ethical Dilemma
Evelyn Manzo
BSHS/332
January 20, 2014
Audra Stinson PhD, LPC, LMFT
Workplace Ethical Dilemma


At a place of previous employment, I was working as a pharmacy technician, at an independent pharmacy. My job description included working under and alongside the supervision of a legally licensed pharmacist, “helping the pharmacist provide medication, and other health care products to patients and consumers. Technicians usually perform routine tasks to help prepare prescribed medication, such as counting tablets and labeling bottles” (System, 2014). Other activities performed include administrative duties, such as customer service duties that are inclusive of answering phones, re-stocking shelves, and cash register operation.
“Within the retail setting in a retail pharmacy setting, pharmacy technicians receive written prescriptions or requests for prescription refills from patients. They also may receive prescriptions sent electronically from the doctor’s office. They must verify that information on the prescription is complete and accurate. Depending on state law, the technician may be given the responsibility to prepare the prescription, retrieve, count, pour, weigh, measure, and sometimes mix the medication. Then, they prepare the prescription labels, select the type of prescription container, and affix the prescription and auxiliary labels to the container. Once the prescription is filled, technicians price and file the prescription, which must be checked by a pharmacist before it is given to the patient. Technicians may establish and maintain patient profiles, prepare insurance claim forms, and stock and take inventory of prescription and over-the-counter medications” (System, 2014).
I have worked as a technician in a retail setting in the past, so going to an independent pharmacy was new experience for me. When I first started I really liked working there since there were only three of us and the...

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