PHARMACEUTICAL CARE
Pharmaceutical care:
Pharmaceutical care is a professional service provided to patients delivered by qualified, registered and trained pharmacist in clinical, community and hospital settings. The main aim of Pharmaceutical care is ensure the best standards of practice while using medicines and health care to achieve the optimized predetermined safety and efficacy goals.
Historical background of Pharmaceutical care
The emergence of pharmaceutical care begins in 1960s in USA where in pharmacist felt the need of ensuring quality of services to the patients in the mean time the fellow health care professionals are feeling difficulty in practicing in their own profession due to availabilityof new knowledge and tools. The demand …show more content…
The pharmacist before filling the prescription shall engage a dialogue with the patient or the attendee of the patient to assess the current knowledge regarding drug, disease and lifestyle of the patient. Based on this the assessment of need for patient counseling and education are made this will help the pharmacists to prepare a customized care plan for the patients. It involves the matters regarding drugs storage, the instructions while using medicines for example how and when to administered, and to identify and alert any risk involving expected adverse drug …show more content…
Within this communication, the patient plays a key role in the overall management of the therapy plan.
• Quality Assessment/Improvement Programs
The implementation and practice of pharmaceutical care is supported and improved by measuring, assessing, and improving pharmaceutical care activities utilizing the conceptual framework of continuous quality improvement.
This document will not cover each and every situation; that was not the intent of the Advisory Committee. This is a dynamic document and is intended to be revised as the profession adapts to its new role. It is hoped that pharmacists will use these principles, adapting them to their own situation and environments, to establish and implement pharmaceutical care.
Although "drug therapy" typically refers to intended, beneficial effects of pharmacologic drugs, in this document, "drug therapy" refers to the intended, beneficial use of drugs -- whether diagnostic or therapeutic -- and thus includes diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals, X-ray contrast media, etc. in addition to pharmacologic drugs. Similarly, "drug therapy plan" includes the outcomes oriented plan for diagnostic drug use in addition to pharmacologic drug
Pharmaceutical care:
Pharmaceutical care is a professional service provided to patients delivered by qualified, registered and trained pharmacist in clinical, community and hospital settings. The main aim of Pharmaceutical care is ensure the best standards of practice while using medicines and health care to achieve the optimized predetermined safety and efficacy goals.
Historical background of Pharmaceutical care
The emergence of pharmaceutical care begins in 1960s in USA where in pharmacist felt the need of ensuring quality of services to the patients in the mean time the fellow health care professionals are feeling difficulty in practicing in their own profession due to availabilityof new knowledge and tools. The demand …show more content…
The pharmacist before filling the prescription shall engage a dialogue with the patient or the attendee of the patient to assess the current knowledge regarding drug, disease and lifestyle of the patient. Based on this the assessment of need for patient counseling and education are made this will help the pharmacists to prepare a customized care plan for the patients. It involves the matters regarding drugs storage, the instructions while using medicines for example how and when to administered, and to identify and alert any risk involving expected adverse drug …show more content…
Within this communication, the patient plays a key role in the overall management of the therapy plan.
• Quality Assessment/Improvement Programs
The implementation and practice of pharmaceutical care is supported and improved by measuring, assessing, and improving pharmaceutical care activities utilizing the conceptual framework of continuous quality improvement.
This document will not cover each and every situation; that was not the intent of the Advisory Committee. This is a dynamic document and is intended to be revised as the profession adapts to its new role. It is hoped that pharmacists will use these principles, adapting them to their own situation and environments, to establish and implement pharmaceutical care.
Although "drug therapy" typically refers to intended, beneficial effects of pharmacologic drugs, in this document, "drug therapy" refers to the intended, beneficial use of drugs -- whether diagnostic or therapeutic -- and thus includes diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals, X-ray contrast media, etc. in addition to pharmacologic drugs. Similarly, "drug therapy plan" includes the outcomes oriented plan for diagnostic drug use in addition to pharmacologic drug