UNIT V: ROLES OF PHARMACISTS IN SELECTED AREAS OF PRACTICE, IN HEALTH CARE SETTING AND DRUG DEVELOPMENT Flashcards
Primary providers for pharmaceutical and pharmaceutical-care services to patients. Can be found in dept. stores, shopping stores, freestanding buildings, markets. Most accessible health-care professional. Provide safe, quality, effective and affordable medicines to the patient and the consumer
Community Pharmacy
Responsible for providing medication for in-patient or out-patient. Staff pharmacist/supervising pharmacist/ chief pharmacist.
Hospital Pharmacy
Required by law in different establishments such as pharmaceutical manufacturer, trader and distributor (exporter/importer). Govern the production, distribution and marketing of drugs which require the pharmacist expertise.
Pharmacist in Industry
The provide the various professional audiences with enough comprehensive information on a product to encourage the product’s use, prescription or recommendation health-care specialist.
Sales
Responsible for developing and implementing marketing plans to promote company’s product to the appropriate target consumer/audiences.
Marketing
Pharmacists who work as clinical researchers are engaged in R&D of new drugs or new dosage forms or new therapeutic classification of existing products
Research and Development
Pharmacists serves as Manager. Responsible for anticipating the company’s needs and planning for the plant facilities, equipment and personnel who will be needed to meet the company’s production goals.
Production
Quality assurance department establishes sampling and testing procedures to meets both company and FDA standards. Ensures potency, purity and dose uniformity of the
product, stability of the finish product and
appropriate expiration dates.
Quality Control
Ensures that each department of a company functions properly. Serves in staff functions, provide legal advice, represents the firm among its various audiences, or providing internal consultation on pharmacy affairs
Administration and Management
Department of Health
Food and Drug Administration
Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency
National Bureau of Investigation
Veterans and Army Hospital
Government –funded research institutions like DOST, PCHRD
Central Bank
Government hospital
Bureau of Customs
Pharmacist in Government
Pharmaceutical education offers excellent opportunities for pharmacists in advance degrees in any of the professional specialties
Pharmacist in Academe
It offers rewarding experiences to a limited number of pharmacists with writing and editing talent
Pharmaceutical journalism
Patient-oriented pharmacy practice. Responsible not only for safe and appropriate use of drugs on patients but also for the rational selection, monitoring, dosing, and control or patient’s overall drug therapy program.
Clinical Pharmacy
… has define six essential “building blocks” to which pharmacists can play an integral role as members of the health care team.
The World Health Organization (WHO)
As medicine experts, pharmacists hold the responsibility to deliver effective, safe, and quality medicines and services to achieve optimal health outcomes.
Health 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.
Health workforce
pharmacists are involved in health screening and surveillance programs- checking immunization status and detecting potential public health hazards.
Health information
The roles of pharmacists are not only limited to medical products, but also include vaccines and medical devices
Medical products, vaccines, and technologies
Pharmacists’ expertise in reducing and preventing medication-related problems and in providing cheaper alternatives or suggesting medicines that are covered by insurance.
Health financing
Take part in public health policy development; linking disease prevalence and drug utilization
Leadership and governance
In the drug marketplace, and the advances in research in the pharmaceutical sciences, the role played by pharmacy has markedly increased throughout the entire spectrum of drug development.
Pharmacists in Drug Discovery and Development
A large number of pharmacists in the industry work in the areas of formulation and packaging development. A drug substance can only be useful as a medicine when it is in a form that can be manufactured on a large scale, distributed and administered satisfactorily.
Formulation and packaging development
is a distinct service or group of services provided by health care providers, including pharmacists, to ensure the best therapeutic outcomes for patients.
Medication therapy management (MTM)
