Pharmacist has several roles when it comes to patient’s safety but I will highlight a few that I think will make a great impact. Our philosophy of practice is all about improving the wellbeing of patients. Pharmacists main focus is the life long impact on patients, by treating the person and not the disease.
A health system pharmacist need to know his or her patient, be knowledgeable about medication dosage, drug interaction on both prescription and over the counter medications and so on.
As medication experts, pharmacists need to be able to educate the patients. In my applied pharmaceutical class, I learned ways to asses a patient. Having the patient’s medication history and immunization records is a starting point on meeting the patients …show more content…
They are more equipped to providing counselling, and evidence-based practices to improve the quality of life of patients. The pharmacist need to check for any medication or drug allergies and inform the patients accordingly. In addition to that, the patients should be advising to call for any common side effect and stop any medication and call 911 if any adverse reaction to drug occurs.
Pharmacist are expected to be caring, dedicated and wants the best for their patients. The main objective of a health system pharmacists is to improve the quality of life of patients. They are obligated to follow the code of ethics, and legal law abiding in their practices; develop drug therapy problems to be resolved with the aid of IESC.
• Indication: The pharmacist will identify what the indication or problem to be solved by evaluating if there is unnecessary drug therapy or if the patients need an additional drug therapy to solve the condition.
• Effectiveness: Pharmacists will make sure that the medication the patents is using is effective or successful. This can be determined by checking if the patient needs a different drug product or the dosage is too
A health system pharmacist need to know his or her patient, be knowledgeable about medication dosage, drug interaction on both prescription and over the counter medications and so on.
As medication experts, pharmacists need to be able to educate the patients. In my applied pharmaceutical class, I learned ways to asses a patient. Having the patient’s medication history and immunization records is a starting point on meeting the patients …show more content…
They are more equipped to providing counselling, and evidence-based practices to improve the quality of life of patients. The pharmacist need to check for any medication or drug allergies and inform the patients accordingly. In addition to that, the patients should be advising to call for any common side effect and stop any medication and call 911 if any adverse reaction to drug occurs.
Pharmacist are expected to be caring, dedicated and wants the best for their patients. The main objective of a health system pharmacists is to improve the quality of life of patients. They are obligated to follow the code of ethics, and legal law abiding in their practices; develop drug therapy problems to be resolved with the aid of IESC.
• Indication: The pharmacist will identify what the indication or problem to be solved by evaluating if there is unnecessary drug therapy or if the patients need an additional drug therapy to solve the condition.
• Effectiveness: Pharmacists will make sure that the medication the patents is using is effective or successful. This can be determined by checking if the patient needs a different drug product or the dosage is too