Physician assistant

A cancer patient may encounter many different health care professionals phlebotomists, pathologists, surgeons, medical and radiation oncologists, physician assistants, pharmacists, nurses, counselors, dieticians, social workers, and chaplains all may be involved with a single patient. Each one plays an important role in care of the cancer patient. The pharmacist s role may include education of patients and family members, education of staff about new agents and safety issues, preparation of therapies, resolution of reimbursement issues, development of order sets, and participation in clinical trials. Each patient should have access to an interdisciplinary team to assist him or her during treatment. 

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Associate Professor of Physician Assistant Studies Augsburg College Minneapolis, Minnesota... 

Assistant Professor Technology Development Coordinator Oregon Health Science University School of Medicine Division of Physician Assistant Education Portland, Oregon... 

David M. Brissette, MMSc, PA-C Assistant Professor Yale University School of Medicine Physician Associate Program Physician Assistant Internal Medicine Lorraine Cicero, MS, PharmD Associate Professor Pharmacy Practice Long Island University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Brooklyn, New York... 

Yale New Haven Hospital New Haven, Connecticut Cori M. Brock, PharmD Clinical Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice Donald Coerver, PhD, PA-C Acting Instructor MEDEX Northwest Division of Physician Assistant Studies Spokane, Washington... 

Chair, Physician Assistant Department Medical College of Georgia Director... 

Assistant Director Physician Assistant Program Baylor College of Medicine Houston, Texas... 

University of Kentucky Physician Assistant Program Lexington, Kentucky... 

Assistant Professor and Physician Assistant Physician Assistant Program Department of Family Community Medicine The University of New Mexico School of Medicine Albuquerque, New Mexico... 

University of North Dakota School of Medicine Physician Assistant Altru Health Care System Grand Forks, North Dakota... 

Donald Maner, PharmD, MHSc, PA-C Assistant Professor Medical College of Georgia Physician Assistant Department Evans, Georgia... 

Infectious Diseases Physician Assistant University of Nebraska Medical Center Omaha, Nebraska... 

Assistant Professor and Academic Coordinator Department of Physician Assistant Studies Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences Boston, Massachusetts... 

Physician Assistant Program University of Findlay Findlay, Ohio... 

Department of Physician Assistant Studies Wake Forest University School of Medicine Winston-Salem, North Carolina... 

Pharmacists, physicians, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners can earn valuable continuing education credit based on the content of Pharmacotherapy Principles Practice. For details visit www.pharmacotherapyprinciples.com... 

Pharmacotherapy Principles Practice is designed to meet the classroom and independent study needs of today s learners in the health professions. Chapters are written or reviewed by pharmacists, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and physicians who are authorities in their fields and were subjected to rigorous review by experts. The book is written in a concise style that facilitates an in-depth level of understanding of the essential concepts. The disease states covered and the drugs discussed in the text focus on those disorders most often seen in actual practice. 

Self-assessment questions and answers for each chapter. Located in the Online Learning Center, these questions are designed to evaluate student learning and may be used to obtain approximately 170 hours of continuing education credit for licensed pharmacists, nurse practitioners, physicians, and physician assistants. 

Should patients be referred to psychiatrists or primary care physicians Our bias is that the referral should almost always be to a psychiatrist. The patient is already seeing a specialist, the therapist, for psychotherapy and deserves the advantage of seeing a specialist for pharmacotherapy. This is not to suggest that certain primary care physicians, physician assistants, or nurse practitioners are not skilled pharmacotherapists. In fact, nonpsychiatric physicians prescribe the majority of psychotropic medications, particularly antidepressants and antianxiety medicines. 

The example of other health workers in the USA nurse practitioners, physician assistants and optometrists demonstrates that non-medical professionals can be trained to adequately prescribe drugs within their area of expertise. Pilot projects, e.g. in the state of California, with psychologists prescribing psychopharmaceuticals with appropriate training and supervision were successful in that both the patients and supervising physicians were comfortable with the clinical performance of the trainees (De Leon and Wiggins, 1996, p. 226). 

One reason for Roche s success with Dalmane was that it did not share two undesirable features of the barbiturates, the then reigning class of sedatives REM suppression and suicidal potency. The barbiturates are CNS depressants that can induce unconsciousness, but because they have a very low margin of safety they can also shut down the respiratory control system of the brain stem. That is how they kill, and that is why they are still popular in Oregon and other places where individuals are free to elect a definitive end to unbearably unpleasant conscious awareness. Physician-assisted suicide is sometimes accomplished by turning off breathing, by pulling the plug internally as it were. 

Includes self-aid, buddy aid, and combat lifesaver skills. Also includes emergency medical treatment provided by combat medics and corpsmen and advanced trauma management provided by physicians and physician assistants. Highest level treatment capability Army medical platoons (battalion aid stations) and USMC shock trauma platoons. 

U.S. federal district court judge rejects a U.S. Justice Department attempt to overturn Oregon s physician-assisted suicide law. The Justice Department claimed that the state law violated the federal Controlled Substances Act. 

Pharmacies are continually looking for new and better ideas to differentiate themselves from other retail outlets and to offer additional health care services to their customers. The addition of in-store medical clinics allows customers to receive medical care that is quick, inexpensive, and convenient (Fig. 23-7). Staffed by nurse practitioners and physician assistants that have prescribing authority, patients can choose from a posted list of services provided, receive treatment, and be on their way in less time than at a medical clinic or emergency room. Patients who need OTC or prescription items can pick up these items right in the store. 

Pharmacists as medicare providers CMS recognizes specific groups of health care professionals as providers of Medicare services. Examples of these professionals are physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurse midwives, and clinical social workers (Social Security Administration, 2007). Each of these professionals may apply to become a provider with Medicare. Unfortunately, if a health care provider is not recognized within the Social Security Act, then he or she cannot be recognized as a provider (Snella et al., 2004). 

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