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- 1. Education And Training Program In The Hospital Mr. Ravinandan A P Asst. Prof. Department of Pharmacy Practice Sree Siddaganga College of Pharmacy Tumkur, Karnataka
- 2. Presentation Outlines……………………. 1. Role of pharmacist in the education and training program 2. Internal and external training program 3. Services to the nursing homes/clinics 4. Code of ethics for community pharmacy 5. Role of pharmacist in the interdepartmental communication and community health education. 6. Communication with prescribers and patients.
- 3. Role Of Pharmacist In The Education and Training Program • Pharmacist is the one who knows the information about medicines, diseases / disorders and life style modification. • Pharmacist have good knowledge about medicines. • Therefore pharmacist can actively involve in education and training program inside and outside the hospital. • Pharmacist must serve needs of society and individual patient through the world. • Pharmacist plays main role in discovery, development production and distribution of drug products and in the creation dissemination of related knowledge. • In addition pharmacist are involved in direct patient care and are taking responsibility for the resolution of drug therapy problems of individuals.
- 4. Education and training division • Coordinate or educate programs of undergraduate and graduate pharmacy student. Like MBBS and MD students, Pharmacy students and Nursing students. • Participate in hospitals- wide educational programs involving nurses, doctors, etc. • Train newly employed (recruited / joined) pharmacy department personnel.
- 5. Education/Training/ Research • Offering continuous education (CE) programs to pharmacist, physicians, nurses. • Training pharmacy students (internship). • Providing residency programs. • Hospital pharmacists may participate in research conducted in the hospital. • Publishing newsletters accessible to staff & public.
- 6. Internal and external training program Internal training program • Are those which involve the training of students nurses. • Conducting seminars to MBBS and MD students, Pharmacy students and Nursing students • Conducting seminars to doctors, pharmacist and nurse • Conducting refreshers course
- 7. External training program • Pharmacist conducting educational and training program outside the hospital. • Conducting guest lecture and conference • Attending conference / seminars as a speaker • Educating public about usage of medicines / drugs. • Conducting workshops on medicines doctors, pharmacists and nurses
- 8. Services To The Nursing Homes/Clinics Pharmacist can provide clinical pharmacy services in nursing homes or clinics like Patient counseling Health education Promotional activities Drug information services Avoid drug related problems Educating nursing home doctors, pharmacist and nurse about medicines and its administration.
- 9. • Pharmacists have been contributing to the care of residents in nursing homes and play a significant role in ensuring quality use of medicine. • Pharmacist can conduct medicine review in nursing homes / clinics.
- 10. Code Of Ethics For Community Pharmacy • Ethics: it means moral principles. It is a science of moral duty. Or Rules by which a profession regulates actions and sets standard for all its members. • Pharmaceutical ethics: the ethics in relation to pharmacy profession is called pharmaceutical ethics. • Morality: morality means good conduct or behavior and consciousness. • Law: law is defined as, the rules of human conduct binding to all persons in a state or nation.
- 11. Code Of Pharmaceutical Ethics • The code of pharmaceutical ethics is formulated by PCI for the guidance of Indian pharmacist. • The code of pharmaceutical ethics helps to guide the pharmacist as to how he should conduct himself in relation to: His job His trade His profession (Pharmacy) Medical profession
- 12. • The profession of pharmacy is noble in its ideals and pious in its character. • Apart from being a career for earning livelihood it has inherent in it the attitude of service and sacrifice in the interests of the suffering humanity. • In handling, selling, distributing, compounding and dispensing medical substances including poisons and potent drugs a pharmacist is, in collaboration with medical men and others, charged with the heavy responsibility of safeguarding the health of people. • A Pharmacist must, above all be a good citizen and must uphold and defend the laws of the state and the Nation.
- 14. Conduct of the Pharmacy: 1. Handling of Prescriptions: • When a prescription is presented for dispensing, it should be received by a pharmacist without any discussion or comment over it regarding the merits and demerits of its therapeutic efficiency. • The Pharmacist should not even show any physiognomic expression of alarm or astonishment upon the receipt of a prescription; as such things may cause anxiety in patients or their agents and may even shake their faith in their physician.
- 15. 2. Handling of Drugs: • All possible care should be taken to dispense a prescription correctly by weighing and measuring all ingredients in correct proportions by the help of scale and measures: visual estimations must be avoided. • Further, a Pharmacist should always use drugs and medicinal preparations of standard quality available. • He should never fill his prescriptions with spurious, sub- standard and unethical preparations.
- 16. 3. Pharmacist in Relation To His Trade Price Structure: • Prices charged from customers should be fair and in keeping with the quality and quantity of commodity supplied and the labor and skill required in making it ready for use, • So as to ensure an adequate remuneration to the pharmacist taking into consideration his knowledge, skill, the time consumed and the great responsibility involved, but at the same time without unduly taxing the purchaser.
- 17. 4. Purchase of Drugs: Drugs should always be purchased from genuine and reputable sources and a pharmacist should always be on his guard not to aid or abet, directly or indirectly the manufacture, possession, distribution and sale of spurious or sub-standard drugs. 5 Advertising and Displays: No display material either on the premises, in the press or elsewhere should be used by a pharmacist in connection with the sale to the public of medicines or medical appliances which is undignified in style or which contains: – (a) Any wording design or illustration reflecting unfavorably on pharmacist collectively or upon any group or individual. (b) A disparaging reference, direct of by implication to other suppliers, products, remedies or treatments. (c) Misleading, or exaggerated statements or claims. (d) The word “Cure” in reference to an ailment or symptoms of ill-health. (e) A guarantee of therapeutic efficacy. (f) An appeal to fear, (g) An offer to refund money paid. (h) A prize, competition or similar scheme. (i) Any reference to a medical practitioner or a hospital or the use of the terms “Doctor” or “Dr.” or “Nurse” in connection with the name of a preparation not already established. (j) A reference to sexual weakness, premature ageing or loss of virility. (k) A reference to complaints of sexual nature in terms which lack the reticence proper to the subject.
- 18. Communication with prescribers and patients Communication with prescribers • Cooperating for medical research work • Pharmacist under no circumstances, take to medical practice i.e. diagnosing drug and prescribing medicines. • In emergency he can give first aid to the person. Should not recommend a medical practitioner, • Clandestine or secret Arrangement: No pharmacist should enter into the secret arrangement and contract with the physician to offer him any commission or any other advantage. • Liaison with Public: Being a liaison between medical profession and people, a pharmacist will always keep himself updated with the modern development of pharmacy by regular reading of books, magazines etc. • Interact with doctors regarding new drug information.
- 19. Communication with Patients • Effective communication between pharmacists and patients or family members is extremely important to pharmaceutical care. • Ineffective communication leads to confusion and misunderstanding and may contribute to inappropriate decisions regarding drug therapy. • Effective communication with patients decreases drug related problems. • Effective communication with patients increases medication adherence. • Effective communication with patients decreases medication errors. • Effective communication with patients helps to provide rational drug therapy i.e., safe, effective and economic (minimum cost) drug therapy
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