Pharmacist's Role in the Healthcare Setting Flashcards
refers to all organisations, people, and activities whose primary purpose is to promote, restore, and maintain health
Health system
ensure the delivery of essential health services to all, whenever they are needed.
Good governance of health systems
defined six essential “building blocks” to identify and assess the capacity of health systems
World Health Organisation (WHO)
The Building Blocks for Health System Strengthening
- Delivery of px services
- Healthcare workers
- Health records & px information
- Medicine & vaccines
- Financing
- Leadership
As medicine experts, pharmacists hold the responsibility to deliver effective, safe, and quality medicines and services to achieve optimal health outcomes. Competency in their discipline and up-to-date knowledge, therefore, are pharmacists’ core in tailoring information and advice to their patients.
Health Services (Delivery of Patient Services)
Well-performing pharmacists are responsive to patient’s needs and preferences. In fact, involving patients in the health care decision-making process has shown greater satisfaction and reduced complaints to offered services. Given the paradigm shift from a product-oriented to a patient-centered pharmacy service, putting the interests of patients and treating them with dignity is a must.
Health Workforce (Healthcare Workers)
As one of the most-accessible health care professionals, pharmacists are involved in health screening and surveillance programs - checking immunization status and detecting potential public health hazards. With reliable and timely health information, pharmacists support the development of the public health system and collectively reduce vulnerability to public health threats.
Health Information (Health Records and Patient Information)
With an increasingly wide range of new and analogous medical products, vaccines, and technologies, the complexity of pharmacy practice continues to broaden. The roles of pharmacists are not only limited to medical products, but also include vaccines and medical devices, especially those that demand special knowledge with regard to uses and risks. Pharmacists, therefore, are responsible for ensuring the efficacy, integrity, and security of medical products, devices, and, vaccines to safeguard a patient’s health.
Medical products, vaccines, & technologies (Medicine & Vaccines)
In an effort to protect vulnerable populations from financial hardships, pharmacists ensure the provision of cost-effective health care through rational use of medical products and modern technologies. Majority of published studies have demonstrated the potential of pharmacists in substantially increasing health care savings across various settings, attributing such results to pharmacists’ expertise in reducing and preventing medication-related problems and in providing cheaper alternatives or suggesting medicines that are covered by insurance.
Health Financing (Financing)
Pharmacists take part in public health policy development; linking disease prevalence and drug utilization, pharmacists enable development of effective health policies, as well as they allow disease prevention to be placed within a larger context. In addition, pharmacists contribute to the emergencies in terms of designing response plans and protocols, and they contribute to resource mobilization through optimization of medication use and distribution.
Leadership & Governance (Leadership)
has the potential to improve medication measures, improve social protection, and ensure Health for All
integration of pharmacists into health systems
shift from technical, product oriented, functions to patient-oriented, health outcomes counselling information and professional services
Pharmaceutical Care
The principal task of the modern pharmacist
to identify, resolve and prevent drug-related problems
Professions included in the Health Care System
- Direct Professional
- Indirect Professional
What are the professions under direct professional?
- Pharmacist
- Physician/Doctors
- Nurses
- Compounder
- Dispenser
