is needed for compounding, stability of drugs, packaging, and physical incompatibilities of drugs.
Pharmaceutical chemistry
is the science of how drugs interact with biological systems to produce therapeutic effects, as well as how these interactions can lead to side effects or adverse reactions.
Pharmacology
deals with microorganisms and their impact on health.
Microbiology
is essential to understand the basic principles of different equipment usage of different equipment in quality control or in simple compounding.
Pharmaceutical technology
helps pharmacists understand alternative therapies and the natural origins of some drugs.
Pharmacognosy
A pharmacist having an aptitude for business can open a retail drug store to serve the community. Community pharmacist is a unique hybrid of businessman and professional.
Community Pharmacy
Industrial Pharmacy Pharmaceutical industry offers job opportunities to pharmacists in the following fields:
Industrial Pharmacy
*Production
*Analytical and quality control
*Research and development
*Marketing and sale
It is organized in an integrated manner and consists of various divisions like compounding and dispensing, manufacturing of transfusion fluids and its quality control, supply of drugs to both outpatient and in patients, research, education, training.
hospital pharmacy
Responsible for creating rules and regulations for the safe use of medicine to promote positive health outcomes.
Regulatory Pharmacy
Ensuring that medications and health services are accessible to the population, particularly those in low-income or underserved areas.
Public Health
- Represented by a symbol Rx which is
written before writing the
prescription.
▪ Superscription
is an abbreviation of the Latin
word recipe meaning take or take
thou.
Rx
- Main part of the prescription order which contains the names and
quantities of the prescribed ingredients. - Consciousness should be taken by the pharmacist in interpreting
abbreviation to avoid medication errors.
Inscription
- This comprises direction to the pharmacist for preparing the prescription and number of doses to be dispensed.
▪ Subscription
- Consists of the direction to be given to the patient regarding the
administration of the drug.
Quantity to be taken or amount to be used - Frequency and timing of administration or application
- Route of administration
- Special instructions such as dilution direction
Signatura
Are used in the outpatient, or ambulatory setting
prescription
Are used for patient who is in the hospital or other health care facility.
medication order
- Single product/component is written
- Not requiring compounding or admixture by the pharmacist
SIMPLE PRESCRIPTION
