How to Do Patient Care Without Interruptions

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: As one who did patient care for over a decade before becoming a medical salesman

   Likely, any clinical information the drug rep may have regarding the drug samples he or she may leave you is inaccurate. ,,,,, Often, the screenings are conducted by front groups to expand the diagnostic boundaries of a particular disease state. , Such drugs are listed in what is called an Orange Book. ,,, Yet such representatives should be aware that their time at your patient treatment area is limited. , These gifts that are actually bribes are largely based on the prescriber's affinity for the drug. rep's promoted products or the volume of prescriptions a doctor writes compared with other health care providers.
   
   The potential consequences of accepting such bribes which the industry calls many things, including 'gifts'
   
   could have on the health of patients and the choices of treatment for them.
   
   Such bribing may cloud the judgment of the health care providers who receive such gifts.. , This is of particular importance when it comes to the issue of utilizing psychotropic drugs and antibiotics, as drugs are very over-utilized in the United States. , In other words, their idealism and passion straight out of school should be maintained, however difficult this may be at times.
   
   As a patient caregiver, you may get overwhelmed at times. , What they may share with you about their promoted drugs is likely embellished or fabricated, if not fully understood by the medical representative. ,, Remind the nurses that this should not affect the treatment and care they give their patients, as difficult as this may be for the nurses.
   
   The pharma industry only amplifies this situation in various ways at certain times and locations.
   
   To say again, do not allow others to interfere with patient care. ,
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   Step 2: I'd like to offer these recommendations to those patient caregivers who are perhaps new to their profession:;

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   Step 3: Do not let those in the pharmaceutical or medical device industries

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   Step 4: for example

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   Step 5: interfere with or take priority over patient care.

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   Step 6: Do not let the industry befriend your staff to gain access to doctors that work with them who are restoring the health of their patients.

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   Step 7: Do have nurses only accept drug samples from drug reps. No literature of any kind from them.

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   Step 8: Do let those you work with know they have a right to refuse interaction with the medical industries in their practice.

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   Step 9: Do not answer questions from drug reps about what doctors prefer prescribing for their patients as it relates to their promoted products

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    Step 10: or anything else about the health care providers at your location

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    Step 11: for that matter.

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    Step 12: Do not accept any promotional material unless it is truly beneficial for their patients

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    Step 13: without branding on the material offered to members who work at your clinic or medical institution.

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    Step 14: Do let the nurses know that drug reps. are overall not in their clinical setting to facilitate patient care

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    Step 15: but to rather increase the volume of what they many be promoting

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    Step 16: as this is the etiology for their interaction with you.

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    Step 17: Do let others who you work with that

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    Step 18: if asked by medical representatives to have a disease screening day of some sort at your facility

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    Step 19: or has invitations for such a screening for you or others to attend

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    Step 20: consider refusing this request.

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    Step 21: Do make others you may work with aware

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    Step 22: or reiterate to them

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    Step 23: that generic drugs are preferred over branded drugs for many reasons

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    Step 24: including cost and experience with the medication while providing the safety and efficacy your patients need.

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    Step 25: Do let the nurse know that drug reps have in their possession the prescribing or buying habits of health care providers

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    Step 26: and will tailor their interaction with them and the prescribes based on this data.

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    Step 27: Do let others you may work with know that the drug reps are

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    Step 28: overall

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    Step 29: decent and friendly people who are just doing what they are instructed to do by their employer

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    Step 30: and they should be aware of what they may be doing could be detrimental to the health of their patients

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    Step 31: if such situations develop.

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    Step 32: Do let those you may work with know that medical representatives who may be in your patient treatment area can question doctors about what they may choose to prescribe a patient.

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    Step 33: Do let others you may work with know that there are doctors who receive inducements

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    Step 34: incentives

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    Step 35: rebates

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    Step 36: and remuneration from particular drug reps.

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    Step 37: Let others you may work with know that pharmaceuticals are not the answer to all symptoms or medical conditions.

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    Step 38: Let others who may work with you know that they should make patient care paramount when seeing patients

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    Step 39: and should not let the industry coerce them into thinking otherwise.

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    Step 40: Let others you may work with know that

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    Step 41: in the U.S.

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    Step 42: medical reps. have little training

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    Step 43: education

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    Step 44: or clinical knowledge relevant to what they may be promoting

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    Step 45: however may have charming personalities and appear to possess quality genetic stock.

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    Step 46: Let others you may work with know that whatever is done for or with patients should be entirely for their benefit

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    Step 47: and not for the benefit of a drug company or a health care provider

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    Step 48: if such a situation develops or are noticed.

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    Step 49: Speaking from the perception of the situation in the U.S.

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    Step 50: there is a shortage of nurses

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    Step 51: and the demands on them are cumbersome and exhausting.

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    Step 52: Let others you may work with know that their vocations are noble and needed

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    Step 53: and what they do for others most choose not to consider

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    Step 54: such as drug reps.

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    Step 55: for example.

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