CLINICAL PHARMACY

1. What do you know about clinical pharmacy?
The term is used to describe the clinical pharmacy practice-oriented pharmacy services to patients over the orientation of the product. Is a discipline related to the application of knowledge and expertise to help maximize the effects of pharmaceutical drugs and minimize toxicity for the individual patient.
Clinical pharmacy is a discipline in which pharmacists provide health care ( "care"; not only clinical services) to patients with the aim to optimize drug therapy and promotes health, wellness and disease prevention.


2. How does the application in hospital and pharmacies?
Clinical pharmacy services in hospital and pharmacy in outline 'scope' clinical function is as follows:

    Monitoring drug therapy
    Readiness to help after taking office hours 'on call'
    Consultants circumference (visiting patients)
    Participate in the pharmacy and therapeutics committees
    Participate actively in the Composer Formularies in order:

    a. Rationalizing drug users
    b. Advancing prescription cost effective
    c. Set up additional new drugs
    d. Formulating guidelines for doctors

    Give feedback / suggestions to the director of clinical
    Provide information about drug usage in financial terms
    Involved in setting up prescription policy
    Make a study of new drugs
    Actively participating in infection control, through the following activities:

    a. Provision of Drug Information
    b. Monitoring of Drug Use
    c. Preparation of Antibiotic Usage Guidelines

    medical audit
    Clinical audit
    Clinical trials
    Total Parenteral Nutrition Team
    Tim chemotherapy
    Patient-controlled analgesia
    Monitoring of therapeutic drug levels (Therapeutic Drug Monitoring)

    a. Pharmacokinetics advice services
    b. Individualization of drug dosing

    services anticoagulants
    Care and treatment of wounds
    Recording treatment history of patients
    Plot development and service of self-medication
    counseling patients
    Monitoring of drug side effects
    Health promotion and health education, disease prevention and health protection.