Quality assurance clinical pharmacy practice

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. 

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. 

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 ... 

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 ... 

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