PCAR (FINALS): Role of pharmacist in health care delivery system

PHARMACIST

are medication experts and

play a critical role in helping

people get the best results

from their medications

1. Community Pharmacy

2. Hospital Pharmacy

3. Wholesale Pharmacy

4. Industrial Pharmacy

5. Company Pharmacist

6. Government Service Offices

7. Pharmaceutical Education

8. Pharmaceutical Journalism

9. Clinical Pharmacy

DIFFERENT AREAS OF PHARMACY PRACTICE (9)

Community Pharmacy

Is practiced by about 85% of pharmacy graduates who make a unique hybrid of businessmen and professionals.

Community pharmacy

a professional in his own right, a partner in the health team who handles drugs of great potency and value, manufactured by a highly sophisticated industry

independent drug store (Community Pharmacy)

The pharmacist may establish her own drugstore

chain drugstore (community pharmacy)

Pharmacist can employed in an existing drugstore

Wholesale Pharmacy

offers opportunities for a limited number of pharmacists.

Wholesale Pharmacy

serves as the MIDDLEMAN between manufacturer and the retailer

supervisory capacities'

All wholesale drug firms employ registered pharmacists in ___

Hospital Pharmacy

is the practice of pharmacy in private and government-owned hospitals.

Hospital Pharmacy

responsible for procurement, preservation, storage, compounding,

manufacturing, packaging, controlling, assaying, dispensing and distribution of medications to hospitalized and ambulatory patients.

Marketing and administration.(Industrial Pharmacy)

A great number of pharmacists are / or detailman is in contact with physicians and pharmacists regarding his company's product

Production (Industrial Pharmacy)

where a pharmacist can work as staff or be given a supervisory position.

Quality control

Industrial Pharmacy:

where a pharmacist can work as a

drug analyst or be given a supervisory position

Research and development

Industrial Pharmacy:

where a pharmacist can work as a researcher

patency

Applied after you discover drug making sure you have full right to that discover drug

Company pharmacist

Industrial Pharmacy:

The pharmacist works as a liaison of

a company to FDA and in charge of the registration of company products.

1. Department of Health

2. Food and Drug Administration

3. Dangerous Drug Board

4. National Bureau of Investigation

5. Veterans and Army Hospital

6. Government-funded research

institutions like NSDB, NRCP

7. Central Bank

8. Government Hospital

Government Service:

Offers opportunities to pharmacists in

various capacities.

◉ Identifies appropriately the health and pharmaceutical needs of the population as well as the appropriate interventions to address them

◉ Support activities aimed at protecting and improving the health and well-

being of the population

◉ Participates in policy and strategy development and implementation

◉ Contributes to the evidence base on how medicines-related interventions, programs and policies improve and protect the health of the population through academic/pharmacy practice research

◉ Ensures clinical governance and continuous quality improvement in service design and delivery

Public Health Pharmacy:

Pharmaceutical Education

◉ offers excellent opportunities for pharmacists with advanced

degrees in any of the professional specialties.

◉ Expanding enrolment in colleges to meet the manpower needs of the future offers excellent opportunities for careers in college teaching.

Pharmaceutical Journalism

offers rewarding experiences to a limited number of pharmacists with writing and editing talent.

Clinical Pharmacy

practice of pharmacy in a hospital setting

Clinical pharmacy

More patient oriented

clinical pharmacist

responsible not only for safe and appropriate use of drugs on patients but also the rational selection, monitoring, dosing, and control of

patient's overall drug therapy program