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• Hospital Pharmacy is a specialized field of pharmacy that forms an integrated part of patient health care
• Strives to continuously maintain and improve medication management and pharmaceutical care of patients to the highest standards in a hospital setting
• Hospital pharmacy comprises the art, practice, and profession of choosing, preparing, storing, compounding, and dispensing medicines and medical devices
• Primary mission of hospital pharmacy is to manage the use of medications in hospitals and other medical centers
• Goals include selection, prescription, procurement, delivery, administration, and review of medications to optimize patient outcomes
• Functions of Hospital Pharmacy (Services SIMILAR to Community Pharmacy Services)
• Ensure that the right patient, dose, route of administration, time, drug, information, and documentation are respected when any medication is used
• Maintaining drug treatment records
• Ordering and stocking medications and medical supplies
• Repackaging medications
• Dispensing medications
• Providing information about the proper use of medications
• Collecting and evaluating information about adverse drug reactions and interactions
• Preparing medications in various dose forms for dispensing
• Educating and counseling patients about their drug therapies
• Preventing, identifying, and resolving medication-related problems
• Functions of Hospital Pharmacy (Services UNIQUE to Hospital Pharmacy Services)
• Preparing and maintaining a formulary
• Conducting drug use evaluations
• Preparing products using aseptic techniques
• Ensuring that hazardous agents are handled and disposed of properly
• Filling medication orders (as opposed to prescriptions)
• Preparing 24-hour supplies of patient medications in a form appropriate for a single administration to a patient (as opposed to a 30- or 90-day supply)
• Stocking nursing stations with medications & supplies
• Delivering medications to patients’ rooms
• Maintaining a drug information service and providing drug information to other healthcare professionals in the institution
• Educating and counseling inpatients and outpatients about their drug therapies
• Monitoring patient outcomes daily (during admission)
• Participating in clinical drug investigations and research
• Providing in-service drug-related education
• Providing expert consultations in areas such as pediatric, pharmacology, nutritional support, and pharmacokinetics
• Qualifications, Competencies, and Responsibilities of Hospital Pharmacists
• Hospital pharmacists should be experts on medicines who advise on prescribing, administering, monitoring, and supply management
• Roles may include devising specific medication plans, assisting in drug-based decisions, compounding medications, helping patients understand their medications, conducting clinical trials, providing medicines in emergency situations, and assisting in specialized medical care such as for cancer patients
• Pharmacists’ Roles in Adult Vaccine Administration
• Pharmacists can play an important role in disease prevention by advocating and administering immunizations
• Activities are consistent with the preventive aspects of pharmaceutical care and have been part of pharmacy practice for over a century
• Role of pharmacists in immunization and vaccination varies across the world, with some countries primarily involved in ensuring safe supply and dispensing of vaccines, while others are empowered to organize vaccination activities and campaigns
• In the Philippines, vaccine administration rights were granted to trained pharmacists by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA advisory No. 2014-067)