Hospital Pharmacy
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The hospital pharmacy department deals with the procurement, storage, preparation, dispensing, and distribution of drugs. It is responsible for forecasting drug demand, selecting reliable suppliers, manufacturing sterile preparations, quality control, dispensing drugs to outpatients, providing drug information, and maintaining liaison between medical and nursing staff. Drugs must be stored properly according to their temperature requirements, with refrigerated items kept between 2-8°C and frozen items between -10 to -25°C. Inventory management systems like FIFO, LIFO, and FEFO are used to ensure older products are used first before their expiration date. The chief pharmacist oversees the pharmacy staff and is responsible for regulatory compliance.
Hospital Pharmacy
- 1. Col Zulfiquer Ahmed Amin M Phil, MPH, PGD (Health Economics), MBBS Armed Forces Medical Institute (AFMI)
- 2. Hospital Pharmacy: The department of the hospital which deals with procurement, storage, compounding, dispensing, manufacturing, testing, packaging, and distribution of drugs. The practice of pharmacy within the hospital under the supervision of a professional pharmacist is known as hospital pharmacy. As per known history, the first pharmacy was established in Baghdad in 754 AD.
- 6. FUNCTIONS OF HOSPITAL PHARMACY: - Forecast of demand - Selection of reliable suppliers - Determining specifications of the required medicament - Manufacturing of sterile or non-sterile preparations - Maintenance of manufacturing records - Quality control of purchased or manufactured products
- 7. - Distribution of medicaments in the wards - Dispensing of medicaments to out-patients - Drug information source in hospitals - Centre for drug utilization studies -Implement recommendations of the pharmacy and therapeutic committee - Patient counseling - Maintaining liaison between medical, nursing and the patient.
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- 18. Storage of Drugs
- 19. Storage Of Refrigerated Drug Items: Refrigerated medications must be stored at appropriate temperatures according to the following: -Room temperature: Between 15-25ºC -Cool place: Between 8-15ºC (Air conditioning) (Antibiotics, Vitamins etc) -Refrigerator: Between 2-8ºC (Vaccines, insulin, heparins etc) (Refrigerator but not freeze) -Freezer: Between -10 and -25 ºC (Oral Polio vaccine which is kept below –20ºC) (Freeze)
- 24. Disposal of Stores First In First Out (FIFO): A First In First Out strategy implies that the products that were stocked first will move out first. Companies should use FIFO method if they are selling perishable goods. Companies selling products with relatively short demand cycles, such as clothes, also may have to pick FIFO to ensure they are not stuck with outdated styles in inventory. LIFO (Last In First Out) In this warehouse management, the products which are brought in the last, moves out the first. LIFO is used in case of products which do not have a shelf life. FEFO ( First Expiry First Out ) In FEFO warehouse management, the products are dispatched from the warehouse according to their expiration date.
- 25. Staffing:
- 26. A drug formulary is a list of prescription drugs, both generic and brand name, used by practitioners to identify drugs that offer the greatest overall value.
- 27. Role of Chief Pharmacist
- 32. Problems of Pharmacy Carrying cost, or holding cost refers to the total cost of holding inventory. This includes warehousing costs such as rent, utilities and salaries, financial costs such as opportunity cost, and inventory costs related to perishability, shrinkage (theft) and insurance