Components of Pharmacy Services Flashcards
An action or set of actions undertaken in or organised by a pharmacy, delivered by a pharmacist or other health practitioner, who applies their specialised health knowledge personally or via an intermediary, with a patient/client, population or other health professional, to optimise the process of care, with the aim to improve health outcomes and the value of healthcare.”
Professional pharmacy service
Health care professionals who practice in pharmacy, the field of health sciences focusing on safe and effective medication use.
Pharmacists
Enumerate the line service
Emergency service
Outpatient service
In patient service
Intensive care uni
Operation theatre
Supportive services
CSSD
Diet Management
Pharmacy Services
Laboratory
Radiology
Nursing Services
Auxiliary services
Registration and Indoor case records
Stores
Transport
Mortuary
Dietary Services
Engineering and Maintenance services
Hospital Security
This is also known as retail pharmacy. This is the most well-known type of pharmacy work in drug store and provide medication access to the community. They promote the safe and effective use of medication.
Community pharmacists
This exists in hospitals, nursing homes, and other medical centers. ensure the optimal use of medications for the best outcomes through the provision of drug information and monitoring for drug safety and efficacy.
Clinical pharmacists
This encompasses the production and preparation of medicines in new forms. This may include reformulating a powder tablet to a solution, which can assist in the administration of the drug for certain patients.
Compounding pharmacists
This involves the pharmaceutical industry and includes research, production, packaging, quality control, marketing and sales of pharmaceutical products.
Industrial pharmacists
This area focuses on the theoretical review of medications rather than dispensing medicines. often work in nursing homes or visit patients in-home to provide their services, in order to enable them to use medications most effectively.
Consulting pharmacists
This offers healthcare services to many patients in rural areas, mostly to geriatric populations. These pharmacists help in the management of patients who are at higher risk of drug-related problems or disease complications due to lack of control over the condition.
Ambulatory care pharmacy
This mainly involves the preparation and delivery of injectables to critically ill patients in the home environment. This is also sometimes referred to as infusion pharmacy, as only injectable medications are dispensed. They may major in one or the other area of illness, such as infusions for nutritional support, chemotherapy, mental illness or oncology.
Home care pharmacy
This involves the planning and management of medication in health maintenance organizations, such as hospitals, nursing homes, and extended healthcare centers.
Managed care pharmacy
This is also known as government pharmacy that is responsible for creating rules and regulations for the safe use of medicine to promote positive health outcomes.
Regulatory pharmacy
developing new drugs and profiling their actions, effectiveness, side-effects and interactions.
Research pharmacy
