Pharmacy practice quality assurance

State boards of pharmacy and departments of public health also influence hospital pharmacy practice. The state boards serve as licensing bodies for both the location of pharmacies and those individuals able to practice. The primary duty of the department of public health (DPH) is to uphold the public interest in quality pharmacy service within the laws and regulations of the state. In fulfilling these obligations through an evaluation of the pharmacy, the board of pharmacy and the DPH assure the public that minimum standards... 

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The fundamental components of the Standard are the statement of objectives of clinical pharmacy, the documentation of procedures for selected clinical activities, the guidance on staffing levels, and the defining of an intervention. The issues of boundaries of clinical practice, resources required, training, education, quality assurance, and documentation requirements are addressed. 

Psychiatric pharmacy practice is a rewarding specialty with diverse opportunities to have an impact on the care of patients directly through innovative practice models, quality assurance, and patient education, and indirectly through professional education, the development of treatment guidelines, clinical research, and careers in the pharmaceutical industryj ... 

The pathway to assuring the safe and effective use of short-lived radiotracers is to place the responsibility for quality assurance in the hands of nuclear pharmacists who fill physician s prescriptions for radiotracers as they do for other drugs under state pharmacy laws. Radiochemists or others working in institutions with radiopharmacies must have the expertise for the preparation of the radiotracers as well as for quality control under good manufacturing practices. This hook provides guidance and safety standards applicable to Tc-99m pharmaceuticals. 

Pharmaceutical Care is a patient-centered, outcomes-oriented pharmacy practice that requires the pharmacist to work in concert with the patient and the patient s other healthcare providers to promote health, to prevent disease, and to assess, monitor, initiate, and modify medication use to assure that drug therapy regimens are safe and effective. The goal of Pharmaceutical Care is to optimize the patient s health-related quality of life, and achieve positive clinical outcomes, within realistic economic expenditures. To achieve this goal, the following must be accomplished ... 

Assure and advance the quality of continuing pharmaceutical education, including Certificate Programs in Pharmacy, thereby assisting in the advancement of the practice of pharmacy. 

To identify scope of practice privileges for the clinical pharmacy specialist (CPS) at the VA Medical Center, and to define criteria for the qualifications for these privileges. The CPS will be qualified and authorized to perform specific clinical duties to assure high quality health care and appropriate pharmaceutical care is provided to the veterans. 

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