Presentation onRole of pharmacist in

medication safety

Presented by-Subash Chowdhury

Roll : 86422nd Batch

Department of Pharmacy,USTC

Introduction

Medication safety:

Medication safety may be defined as safe and quality usage of

medicine. Adverse drug events (ADEs), including medication errors and adverse

drug reactions (ADRs) have a significant impact in the individuals who take

medications. Pharmacists have great role to prevent these impacts and ensure

the patient safety.

Pharmacist:

A professional who prepare and dispense drug and medicines.

Pharmacists are very familiar with medication ingredients, interactions and

caution. A pharmacist is a health care professionals who cooperates with,

consults with and sometimes advises the patient about concerning drug.

Medication Safety

For reducing error and harm from medicines through safe

and quality use of medicines.

It’s also helping us to achieve our objective of leading

and coordinating national safety and quality for better

health care.

Why medication safety needed?

Medication Errors

Medication errors are unintended mistakes in the

prescribing, dispensing and administration of a medicine that

could cause harm to a patient.

They are the most common preventable cause of undesired

adverse events in medication practice.

Medication errors causes a major public health burden.

Medication errors cause at least one death every day and injure approximately 1.3 million people annually in the United States.

Where medication errors occurs?

Monitoring

Prescribing Repackaging Dispensing

Administration Transcribing

Major Areas for Medication Error

Roles of pharmacist in medication safety

Individual pharmacist play individual role in medication

safety for improvement of patient health.

The role of pharmacists in medication safety can be

categorized in three major areas which are given below-

1. Hospital

2. Clinical and

3. Community.

Roles of the hospital pharmacist in medication

safety

There are three responsibilities of hospital pharmacist for both

In and Out patient, those are given below-

Dispensing Area’s Responsibilities:

Ensure that established policies and procedures are

follows

Check for accuracy in the work of supportive personnel

Maintains professional competence

Insures the proper techniques are used in

extemporaneous compounding.

Patient Care Area’s Responsibilities: Inspect periodically the medication areas on the nursing unit to

ensure and adequate supply of stock drugs and their proper

storage.

Identifies drug brought into clinic.

Assist in drug product and entity section.

General Responsibilities: Provide drug information as necessary to pharmacy, medical and

nursing stuffs.

Coordinates overall pharmaceutical needs of the ambulatory

services.

Provide adequate control.

Roles of the hospital pharmacist in medication

safety

Role of the clinical pharmacist in medication

safety

Prescription monitoring.

Medication history-taking and medicines reconciliation.

Communicates patient information to the physician.

Assist physician to select drug product, dosage form and schedules.

Patient education and counseling.

Monitoring the patients total therapeutic drug level, effectiveness,

side effects, toxicities, allergic drug reactions, drug interactions and

appropriate patient outcome.

Provide drug information to the patient, medical & nursing stuffs.

Clinical pharmacists plays a vital role in the hospital. Their role are as follows-

Roles of the Community pharmacist in medication

safety

Dispensing prescriptions medicines to the public, Check

dosage, ensure the medicine are correct and safe and level it.

Liaising with doctors about prescriptions.

Supervising the preparation of any medicines.

Counseling and advising the public on the treatment of minor

aliments and any adverse side-effects of medicines or

potential interactions with other medicines/treatments.

Role of the community pharmacists in medication safety are given below-

Overseeing the ordering and safe storage of medical

products and in some cases, arranging the delivery of

prescription medicines to patients.

Keeping up-to-date with current pharmacy practice, new

drugs and their uses.

Managing, supervising and training pharmacy support stuff.

Roles of the Community pharmacist in medication

safety

Pictorial representation of the pharmacists role in medication

safety

Hospital simply couldn’t function without highly trained

and highly skilled Pharmacists.

Pharmacists produce personalized medicines allowing for specific and individual treatment for every patient for medication safety.

Pictorial representation of the pharmacists role in medication

safety

Pharmacist make sure that hospital has the right medicines for the right patients, at the right time and that these are administered in the right way for medication safety.

Pictorial representation of the pharmacists role in medication

safety

Pharmacists ensure that at all hours of the day and night patients in the hospitals have the proper medicine they need.

Pictorial representation of the pharmacists role in medication

safety

Pictorial representation of the pharmacists role in medication

safety

Pharmacists works with the patients, doctors, nurses & the public..

Conclusion

Pharmacists plays a vital role in medication safety. The need of pharmacists is rising day by day for better health care of the patient. Only pharmacists contact with the patients, doctors ,nurses and other medical stuff for better medication.

References

William E. Hassan, JR. "Hospital Pharmacy" Fifth Edition Lea and Febiger, Philadelphia, (1986)

Mayo, A.M. 7 Duncan, D., Nurse Perceptions of medication Errors: What We Need to Know for Patient safety, Journal of Nursing Care Quality, July/September, Volume 19, number 3 (209-217), (2004)

American College of Clinical Pharmacy. The definition of clinical pharmacy. Pharmacotherapy 2008; 28: 816–817.

Links:• http://www.medacs.com/blog/2013/08/01/the-role-of-a-

hospital-pharmacist#.VaEpBvmqqko• http://apps.who.int/medicinedocs/en/d/Jh2995e/1.6.3.html• European association of hospital pharmacists pdf.