Pharmacist Pharmaceutical care

As pharmacists engage in pharmaceutical care and increasingly in the monitoring of pharmacotherapy in... 

What is less clear is how, or whether, the roles of pharmacists will grow or advance. Since no significant increase in the number of practicing pharmacists can be foreseen in the immediate future to take on this increasing workload, while hopefully continuing to expand services and the delivery of pharmaceutical care, pharmacy clearly faces a major challenge. More use of better trained, certified, or even licensed technicians is one approach. More automation and computerization is another. A rapid growth in the expected use of electronic prescriptions may also allow further efficiencies—even the prospect of a paperless automated process. 

Pharmaceutical Care Insights from Community Pharmacists William N. Tindall and Marsha K. Millonig... 

Once this minimum pharmaceutical care is covered, pharmacists would be free to set up any other initiative. The erosion of earning power that this might spell for existing pharmacies could be offset by means of minimum market protection periods and by prohibiting chains of pharmacies without a single owner per pharmacy. 

This book provides tlie reader with a variety of practice MCQs, which can be used to assess essential pharmacy practice knowledge in a number of areas, including drug action, uses, clinical pharmacology, adverse effects, pharmaceutical care, counselling points, product selection and pharmaceutical calculations. It will be a very useful text both for pharmacy preregistration examination candidates and for practising pharmacists. 

What is the significance of management within the context of the pharmaceutical care and medication therapy management movements Why has its significance typically been overlooked by pharmacists and pharmacy students ... 

While the pharmaceutical care movement made an indelible mark on the profession, its terminology is being replaced with more contemporary language that reflects pharmacists growing roles in the provision of public health services. In recognizing the morbidity and mortality resulting from medication errors as a public health problem, the profession has begun to... 

Be an active member of professional associations that support the concept of pharmaceutical care Make available an area for private consultation services for patients as necessary Identify software that facilitates pharmacists patient care-related activities... 

Broeseker A, Janke KK. 1998. The evolution and revolution of pharmaceutical care. In McCarthy RL (ed), Introduction to Plealth Care Delivery A Primer for Pharmacists, p 393. Gaithersburg, MD Aspen. 

Desselle SP. 1997. Pharmacists perceptions of pharmaceutical care practice standards. J Am Pharm /1b cNS37 29. 

Desselle SP, Rappaport HM. 1995. Feasibility and relevance of identified pharmaceutical care practice standards for community pharmacists. Paper presented at the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists Annual Meeting, Miami, FL, November 7. 

Automation can reduce medication errors if it is implemented properly because it reduces the number of manual functions necessary to complete a task, thus reducing the chance for mistakes. Automation has helped to reduce the time that pharmacists spend preparing, labeling, and packaging medications, and this time can be reallocated to pharmaceutical care activities (Lewis, Albrant, and Hagel, 2002). 

O Neill JL, Gaither CA. 2007. Investigating the relationship between the practice of pharmaceutical care, construed external image, organizational identification and job turnover intention of community pharmacists. Res Soc Admin Pbarm 3 438. 

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