"Legislation letter\r\n\r\nIdentify a pharmacy-related issue, write your legislation letter as a pharmacy student to address concerns using American Public Health Association (APHA) Healthcare Reform Advocacy Toolkit as an example \r\n\r\nhttp://www2.archivists.org/sites/all/files/AmericanPublicHealthAssocAdvocacyToolkit.pdf\r\n\r\n750 Words-APA\r\nConfirm if you can do this:Legislation letterIdentify a pharmacy-related issue, write your legislation letter as a pharmacy student toaddress concerns using American Public Health Association (APHA) HealthcareReform Advocacy Toolkit as an example http://www2.archivists.org/sites/all/files/AmericanPublicHealthAssocAdvocacyToolkit.p df750 Words-APA [Your Name][Address][City, State, Zip]The Honorable Richard BurrUnited States Senate217 Russell Senate Office BuildingWashington, DC 20510Re: Pharmacy-related issue & request for resolutions.Dear Senator Burr,I am a pharmacy student at [School Name]. I am writing to in regards to recent pharmacy- related issues faced & we request for resolutions at the earliest.As a constituent of yours, I hope that you will consider some of the key issues which I wouldlike to address & would like to bring it to your notice. Sometimes there is a shortage of drugsin the hospital & vicinity because of which there is a long-lasting customer queuewhich are continuously demanding regular drugs. Even though pharmacy employees keep alist of records of regularly demanded drugs & injections, still, there is a supply shortage due to vendor mismanagement or sometimes due to the pharmacy staff not been efficient inupdating the list on regular basis or ordering it on time. Due to complete mismanagement & efficiency, it results in chaos & customer dissatisfaction.This should be addressed on an immediate basis as taking care of customers or patients is alsoa responsibility of the pharmacy. Such experiences lead to the loss of trust & faith from themedical care.We also noticed that pharmacy staff supports specific drugs more due to the push sales fromthe back end vendors giving them commissions & incentives in promoting it. Majorly onroutine schedule time, it was noticed pharmacy staff even though specific drugs are availablein the shop still they decline to give it & give other cheap quality inferior medicines due topush sales from drug vendors. Customers may or may take pharmacy staff replaced drugsagain leading to dissatisfaction. This should be continuously monitored by the authorities &checkpoints should be adhered by pharmacists.Over the counter medicines are sold even without verifying prescriptions. Sometimes,chemist simply gives customer requested medicines without even giving unbiasedsuggestions related to medicines. Sometimes, it’s noticed customers don’t even visit doctors& take trust pharmacy staff advice blindly. One should keep a tab about such unprescribedmedicines sold to customers & should always provide unbiased suggestions. Selling suchdiscounted & promoted medicines to customers without even verifying from the authoritiesmay lead to uncontrolled damages in patients.Additionally, sometimes there is a change of packaging & or vendor providing inferiorquality drug with similar names. A pharmacy staff should verify each & every drug suppliedthoroughly before selling it off to the customers. For e.g. It was once noticed that solution in the Vitamin D3 was diluted with some cheap solution. Giving it to children or used by adultswithout even checking such solutions can lead to life damaging effects. It was also noticed from the experience that pharmacists do not have a uniformity ofpharmacy practices. Some pharmacists are not even qualified to run OTC shops. At leastuniformity to open a counter they should have minimum qualifications & proper licenseshould be issued, verified by the state or government regulated boards. Incase if thepharmacists are not following board rules & regulation strict actions should be taken whichincludes cancellation of license or debarring from practicing.It was also observed some pharmacists do not service customers properly. Since pharmacistsis also a white collar & responsible job hence staffing, training & development should be anintegral part. Serving the customers with full responsibility & accountability should comenaturally to pharmacists.Some pharmacists also play a vital role in the research & development of the drugs & help inproviding data to the competitors. In order to have better-developed drugs which couldprovide effective results, some doctors, organization considers data from pharmacists whohelp them in developing a fine tune drugs.Since pharmacists play an important role in bridging the gap between hospitals, drugsdealers, doctors & intensive patient care. Hence, pharmacists should be well trained,qualified, vigilant in their approach towards customer & incase of any red alerts from vendordrug dealer side should very well notify the authorities. Everything from prescription tocustomer database, bill receipts, and medicines ordered (including expiry dates) & everyother minute details should be documented & recorded for the future purposes. "