Hello readers, how have you been recently??
I am going to encounter my mid semester paper in one more weeks, lazy to prepare myself as this is my last theory semester.
One of the subject I encountered this semester is Pharmacy Practice 3 which mainly focuses on Clinical Pharmacy.
Pharmacy??? Clinical????
Is it a pharmacy in a clinic???
NO
Clinical pharmacy is a field where the health care providers teamed up with the pharmacist and pharmaconomist to promote cost efectiveness and the correct usage of the medicines.
how is it different from pharmacy??
pharmacy is a WIDE field focusing not only pharmaceutical care, but involving pharmaceutics, organic synthesis and pharmacology as well as pharmacognosy.
clinical pharmacy focuses on the treatment for pateints in terms of cost, adverse drug reactions, route of administration,patterns of usage,population of patients, pharmacotherapeutics and also pharmacoeconomics.
clinical pharmacy mostly found in hospital setting, but the term 'clinical' does not imply that clinical pharmacy needed to be practice at hospital pharmacy only. they also provides advices and counselling services.
In some states, clinical pharmacists are given prescriptive authority under protocol with a medical provider (i.e., MD or DO), and their scope of practice is constantly evolving. In the United Kingdom clinical pharmacists are given independent prescriptive authority.
Basic components of clinical pharmacy practice
*Prescribing drugs
*Administering drugs
*Documenting professional services
*Reviewing drug use
*Communication
*Counseling
*Consulting
*Preventing Medication Errors
Scope of clinical pharmacy:
+Drug Information
+Drug Utilization
+Drug Evaluation and Selection
+Medication Therapy Management
+Formal Education and Training Program
+Disease State Management
+Application of Electronic Data Processing (EDP)
Activities of Clinical Pharmacists
The principle activities of a clinical pharmacist include:
Consulting
Analysing therapies, advising health care practitioners on the correctness of drug therapy and providing pharmaceutical care to patients both at hospital and at community level.
Selection of drugs
Defining "drug formularies" or "limited lists of drugs" in collaboration with hospital doctors, general practitioners and decision makers.
Drug information
Seeking information and critically evaluating scientific literature; organising information services for both the health care practitioners and the patients.
Formulation and preparation
Formulation and preparation of medicinal products and devices according to acceptable standards to meet specific patients' needs.
Drug use studies and research
Drug use studies/ pharmacoepidemiology/ outcome research/ pharmacovigilance and vigilance in medicinal devices: collecting data on drug therapies, their costs and patient outcome through structured and scientific methods.
Pharmacokinetics/ therapeutic drug monitoring
Studying the kinetics of drugs and optimising the dosage.
Clinical Trials
Planning, evaluating and participating in clinical trials.
Pharmacoeconomy
Using the results of clinical trials and outcome studies to determine cost- effectiveness evaluations.
Dispensation & Administration
Dispensing and administration of medicinal products and devices: studying and developing systems for the dispensing and administration of medicinal products and devices that can guarantee a higher security in administration, a reduction of expenditure and a reduction in medication errors.
Teaching & Training
Pre- and post-graduate teaching and activities to provide training and education programmes for pharmacists and other health care practitioners.
Clinical pharmacy, anyone????
