Interaction & discussion on pharmacy practice, pharmacy practice

the general concept of the clinical pharmacy, the talk about the competences, skills, and services of the clinical pharmacists. few important regarding the emerging field in pharmacy.

1. INTERACTION & DISCUSSION PHARMACY PRACTICE SHARAD CHAND PHARM D (INTERN) TVM College of Pharmacy, Ballari

2. Introduction Good Pharmacy Practice (GPP) is at the very heart of the profession of Pharmacy; indeed it is the very essence of the profession. Moreover, it expresses our covenant with the patient not only to ‘do no harm’ but also to facilitate good therapeutic outcomes with medicines. practice of pharmacy that responds to the needs of the people who use the pharmacists’ services to get optimal, evidence-based care.

3. The mission of pharmacy practice is to contribute to health improvement and to help patients with health problems to make the best use of their medicines. • being readily available to patients with or without an appointment; • identifying and managing or triaging health-related problems; • health promotion; • assuring effectiveness of medicines; • preventing harm from medicines; and • making responsible use of limited health-care resources

4. GOAL

5. Role 1: Prepare obtain store secure Distribute dispense administer and dispose of medical products .

6. Role 2: Maintain and improve professional performance .

7. Role 3: Contribute to improve effectiveness of the health-care system and public health Disseminate evaluated information about medicines and various aspects of self-care Engage in preventive care activities and services Comply with national professional obligations, guidelines and legislations

8. Role 4: Provide effective medication therapy management Assess patient health status and need. Manage patient medication therapy. Monitor patient progress and outcomes. Provide information about medicines and health-related issues .

9. COMPETENCIES: Pharmaceutical care services Drug and poison information services Pharmacovigilance Pharmacometrics Clinical toxicology Clinical research Antibiotic stewardship Pharmacoepidemiology Drug Utilization and Evaluation Systematic review and Meta-analysis Out-come studies in critical care (Risk assessment and prediction)

10. SKILLS PRESCRIPTION AUDIT AND RECONCILATION PRACTICE BASED EDUCATION

11. SERVICES 1. Medication Therapy Management: Customized educational interventions to prevent underutilization, overutilization, inappropriate use, and abuse of certain drugs. 2. Patient Counselling:  Motivational interviews, break communication barriers with patients and improve their health outcomes by enhancing compliance. 3. Drug Information Services :  Provides timely, evidence-based drug information to promote safe, rational use of medications. 4. Clinical Toxicology Services: The services include poison informations and toxicology screening for accidental and intentional overdoses of medicines, illicit drugs and toxins. 5. Medication reconciliation :  Compares patient's medication orders to medication history and helps avoid errors of omission, duplication, incorrect doses or timing and adverse drug-drug or drug-disease interactions. 6. Pharmacovigilance (Adverse drug reaction (ADR) monitoring and reporting): Ensures patient safety and involves causality assessment of Adverse Events, ADR reporting and monitoring.

12. SERVICES 7. Periodic Safety Update Report (PSUR): Periodical reporting of the complete safety experience of newly introduced drugs to regulatory authorities. 8. Health Screening Programme: Enhances access to screening services to the poor. 9. Community outreach Programme: immunization, patient safety and health education, to raise awareness about drug use and abuse. 10. Continuing Pharmacy Education Programme: Clinical skill development and hands-on training are offered to working pharmacists 11. Clinical Research Support: conduct and monitor clinical research, support physicians and other healthcare professionals  in framing / executing research protocols and publishing research findings.

13. SERVICES HOSPITAL ‘Community HOME Reinforcement DIC, PIC

14. CONCLUSION These roles may vary for each individual pharmacist depending on their practice responsibilities. professional goals to be met in the interest of the patients, As health professionals, pharmacists have a duty to begin the process without delay.

15. REFERENCES Annex 8: Joint FIP/WHO guidelines on good pharmacy practice: standards for quality of pharmacy services from the WHO technical report series, No. 961. 45th report of the WHO Expert Committee on specifications for pharmaceutical preparations © World Health Organization 2011 Image source- google .