ETHICS IN THE PHARMACY
Date Issued
2023
Author(s)
Milena Apostolovska Stepanoska
Vasko Naumovski
Marija Nikolova
Abstract
Abstract
Pharmacy as an industrial branch is going through intense technological, informational and
biomedical progress which brings with it a multitude of ethical challenges in their
professional work. Pharmaceutical practice is increasingly changing and a new role of the
pharmacist is emerging as someone who manages the given drug therapy with the aim of
efficient and effective health care in the treatment process itself. At the center of
pharmaceutical attention is the patient and taking responsibility for the outcome of
pharmacotherapy, as well as undertaking numerous interventions aimed at maintaining or
improving the quality of life (health) of the patient. Modern pharmaceutical practice implies,
above all, the care of the patient's well-being and brings with it professional expectations and
obligations, which can bring serious conflicts and ethical dilemmas. The World Health
Organization considers the pharmaceutical profession and pharmacists as the primary level of
health care and as the most accessible source of health information. The social role of the
pharmacist is changing and with it the level of awareness that has a meaning of professional
and work ethics is also changing. Although the health profession has long explained the
corpus of ethical attitudes, developed primarily for the benefit of patients, pharmacy as a
profession has a particularly pronounced distinctiveness of its ethical norms, which are
divided into work and professional ethics in pharmaceutical practice, and are also different.
The paper deals with a topic that has great importance and a central place in the functioning of
all companies, including companies from the pharmaceutical industry.The main purpose of
the research is to show the importance of professional ethics and knowledge of ethical codes,
ethical principles and moral principles by pharmacists, as well as ways of making decisions in
situations when pharmacists are faced with an ethical problem in the conditions of modern
pharmaceutical practice, and the impact of their disregard in terms of social responsibility in
corporate governance in the pharmaceutical industry
Pharmacy as an industrial branch is going through intense technological, informational and
biomedical progress which brings with it a multitude of ethical challenges in their
professional work. Pharmaceutical practice is increasingly changing and a new role of the
pharmacist is emerging as someone who manages the given drug therapy with the aim of
efficient and effective health care in the treatment process itself. At the center of
pharmaceutical attention is the patient and taking responsibility for the outcome of
pharmacotherapy, as well as undertaking numerous interventions aimed at maintaining or
improving the quality of life (health) of the patient. Modern pharmaceutical practice implies,
above all, the care of the patient's well-being and brings with it professional expectations and
obligations, which can bring serious conflicts and ethical dilemmas. The World Health
Organization considers the pharmaceutical profession and pharmacists as the primary level of
health care and as the most accessible source of health information. The social role of the
pharmacist is changing and with it the level of awareness that has a meaning of professional
and work ethics is also changing. Although the health profession has long explained the
corpus of ethical attitudes, developed primarily for the benefit of patients, pharmacy as a
profession has a particularly pronounced distinctiveness of its ethical norms, which are
divided into work and professional ethics in pharmaceutical practice, and are also different.
The paper deals with a topic that has great importance and a central place in the functioning of
all companies, including companies from the pharmaceutical industry.The main purpose of
the research is to show the importance of professional ethics and knowledge of ethical codes,
ethical principles and moral principles by pharmacists, as well as ways of making decisions in
situations when pharmacists are faced with an ethical problem in the conditions of modern
pharmaceutical practice, and the impact of their disregard in terms of social responsibility in
corporate governance in the pharmaceutical industry
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