Lecture 2 Flashcards
Who are the drug information experts?
Pharmacists.
T or F
Nurses know more about medications than pharmacists?
False, No one knows more about medication than pharmacists.
List the role of the pharmacists:
1- Prepare medication.
2- Dispense medication.
3- Counsel patients.
4- Monitor outcomes.
Role of modern pharmacists:
1- To provide medication information.
2- Prevent medication problems.
What are the 4 evolution stages of the pharmacist’s role?
1- Traditional era
2- Scientific era
3- Clinical era
4- Pharmaceticual care era
What is the traditional era?
Formulation and dispensing of drugs from natural sources.
What science is involved in the traditional era? Define it:
Pharmacognosy, it is defined as the science of studying the medicinal properties of natural products from animal plants and minerals.
In which era pharmacognosy is found?
Traditional era
Define Galenical pharmacy and in which era was it found?
A science dealing with techniques for preparing medications, and it was found in the traditional era.
What happened or changed during the scientific era?
- Drugs were prepared in factories.
- Development or emergence of the pharmaceutical industry.
- Pharmacy education emphasized science.
When did the scientific era begin?
It began after world war 2.
What sciences are involved in the scientific era?
Pharmacology and Pharmaceutics
Define pharmacology and pharmaceutics:
- Pharmacology is the study of the effect of the drugs in the body, their mechanism, and side effect.
- Pharmaceutics is the science of dosage forms.
When does clinical pharmacy appear?
In the clinical era.
What sciences are involved in the clinical era?
1- Pharmacokinetics
2- Pathophysiology
Define Pharmacokinetics and Pathophysiology:
- Pharmacokinetics the activity of the drug within the body includes absorption, metabolism, and elimination.
- Pathophysiology the study of disease and illness affecting normal body function.
Who defined pharmaceutical care?
Helper and strand.
Define Pharmaceutical care:
It is the philosophy that expanded the pharmacist’s role to include suitable medication to achieve positive outcomes.
What does the Pharmaceutical care include:
1- Regulating dose and monitoring response to therapy.
2- Educating patients and dispensing prescriptions.
Why choose a career in pharmacy?
1- Respecected career 2- Continous learning 3- A part of the health care team 5- Excellent earning 6- Trusted profession
What does Pharmacy give pharmacists:
1- Satisfaction
2- Credibility
3- Rewarding
4- Flexibility
List the career option to the pharmacists:
- Hospital pharmacy
- Community pharmacy
- Retail pharmacy
- Industrial pharmacy
- Veterinary pharmacy
- Academic pharmacy
- Regulatory pharmacy
Professionals who wish to be associated with the hospital can go for:
Hospital pharmacy
What is the role of pharmacists that work in hospital pharmacy?
They can provide doctors and nurses with effective advice on medicine.
A person with an interest in research can go for:
Industrial pharmacy.
What is the role of pharmacists that work in industrial pharmacy?
Their job is more like scientists, they conduct experiments and analysis result of drugs and medicines.
People who love to teach can go for:
Academic pharmacy.
What is the role of pharmacists that work in academic pharmacy?
It combines between teaching and researching and it is sharing and passing of your knowledge to students.
People who are interested in private stores can go for:
Retail pharmacy.
What is the role of pharmacists that work in retail pharmacy?
They work as distributors of medicine, basically, it is like a shop where people will come and buy medicine.
People that are interested in primary health care can go for:
Community pharmacy.
What is the role of pharmacists that work in community pharmacy?
Their role is to use and apply their knowledge and skills for effective primary health care. They make sure that health care professionals make the right and safe decision for using medicines.
People who are interested in working on the policy levels can go for:
Regulatory pharmacy.
What is the role of pharmacists that work in regulatory pharmacy?
The professionals work with the government to protect and improve the public health.
They make sure that the drugs manufactured by the companies are safe before they are marketed to the public.
Pharmacy technicians having a passion for animal health can go for:
Veterinary pharmacy.
What is the role of pharmacists that work in veterinary pharmacy?
They deal with medicines and drugs manufactured, marketed, and dispensed by veterinary doctors. In rural settings, they help the farming industry by providing the right medication to animals.
List the goals of pharmaceutical care:
- Cure and treat disease
- Stop or slow disease
- Prevent disease
- Reduce symptoms
- Improve the health of the patient with minimal risk
What do Pharmacists do?
- Educate patients about drugs.
- Advise other health care professionals about drug discussion.
- Make sure that drugs don’t interact together in a harmful way.
- Make sure of drug purity and strength.
- Knows chemical, biological and physical properties about the drugs.
T or F
There are many pharmacists all over the world and there is no shortage.
False, the is a shortage of pharmacists throughout the world
Why is there a shortage of pharmacists?
- Increase in the number of new prescription medicines
- Growing elderly population
- Greater demand and request for patient care
- Growth in community pharmacy
- Increase numbers of industries
- More strict rule for pharmaceutical field
