Importance of pharmacist in health care

1. 60th National Pharmacy Week`2021.
Presented by: G.V.Bhargav Goud.
(B.Pharm 4th year)

2. CONTENTS
Introduction
Role of Pharmacist in Different sectors
 Research and Development
 Community Pharmacist.
 Hospital Pharmacist.
 Industrial Pharmacist.
 Regulatory Affairs.
 Quality Control.
 Medicinal Information Specialist.
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3. Pharmacist: “A person who is professionally qualified to prepare and dispense medicinal drugs”.
 Health Care: Health care is a multiple of services rendered to individual, families or communities by
the agent of health services or professionals for the purposes of promoting ,monitoring,
restoring of health.
 According to WHO “Health is complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely absence of
disease.
 Professionals include in Health care system
• Direct professional
A. Pharmacist.
B. Physician/doctors
C. Nurses
D. Compounders.
• Indirect professional Like Engineers, Teachers and every person
• Different professional plays different minor roles in health care system
but only Pharmacist play major role in health Care System.
 Importance of Pharmacist:
• A Specialist in medications.
• A Companion of the health care members.
• A Counselor to the Patient.
• A guardian of public Health.
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4. RoleofPharmacistINDIFFERENTSECTORS
 Pharmacists may follow career tracks that provide opportunities beyond
dispensing prescription drugs in a store, as there are actually many fields in
pharmacy.
 Pharmacists also conduct extensive research into new drugs and their
reactions. Pharmacists in academia delve into the research behind the
discovery and testing of new medicines.
 In pharmaceutical companies, pharmacists often are employed to oversee
research projects.
 Pharmacist may do Research in Chemistry,Pharmacology,New drug
application, Generic medicine development etc.
 Drug development is the process of bringing a new pharmaceutical drug to
the market once a lead compound has been identified through the process of
drug discovery.
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5.  Dispensing of prescription medicines to the public.
 Liaising with doctors about prescriptions.
 Counselling and advising the public on the treatment of minor health issues.
 Preparing dosette and cassette boxes, usually for the elderly but also for those
with memory difficulties.
 Arranging the delivery of prescription medicines to the Patients.
 Keeping up to date with current pharmacy practice, new drugs and their uses.
The role of Community Pharmacists in Pharmacovigilance
• According to the World Health Organization, pharmacovigilance is ‘‘the science
and activities relating to the detection, assessment, understanding and
prevention of adverse effects or other possible drug-related problem.’’ In a
number of countries the pharmacist plays an important role in the reporting of
suspected ADRs.
Role of Community Pharmacist in prevention of Drug Misuse
• All pharmacists play a major part in limiting the illicit availability of drugs by
controlling the supply of medicines, monitoring prescriptions to identify
excessive prescribing and detecting and reporting forged prescription
• In addition, many pharmacists are involved in activities aimed at reducing the
risk of harm from the illicit use of drugs (e.g.dispensing methadone , Sedatives
Narcotics drugs and supervising consumption on the pharmacy premises)
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6.  “Hospital pharmacist means an individual who is engaged in the practice of
pharmacy in a hospital setting.”
Functions:
• To perform functions of management of material, purchase, storage of
essential items.
• To counsel the patient, medical staff, nurses and others involved in patient
care on the use of drugs, possible side effects, toxicity, adverse effects, drug
interactions etc.
• To serve as a source of information on drug utilization.
• To interact, cooperate and coordinate with various other departments of the
hospital.
• To ensure availability of the required medication at an affordable cost at the
required time.
• Supervising the work of less experienced and less qualified staff.
• Setting up and supervising clinical trials.
• Participating in ward rounds, taking patient drug history and involvement in
decision making on appropriate treatments.
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7. Industrial Pharmacy is a discipline which includes manufacturing
,development,marketing,and distribution of drug products including quality
assurance .
Industrial Pharmacy is concerned with the preparation of medicines.
To discover safe and effective new drugs.
To promote drug reaseach.
To discover new ways ,technologies and product to manage health.
To Develop new drugs into effective medicines.
To guarantee patient safety by producing a safe product.
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8.  Production.
 Marketing.
 Research and Development.
 Management and Administration.
 Quality control.
 Regulatory Affairs.
 Patent Application and Drug registration.
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9.  Regulatory affairs is a profession developed from the desire of governments to protect public
health by controlling the safety and efficacy of products in areas including Pharmaceuticals
,Veterinary medicines, Pesticides and Cosmetics.
 Pharmacist work as regulatory pharmacist in both private and public sector. They act link
between the company and the local regulatory authorities on matters relating to the quality
safety and efficacy issues of the drugs.
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10.  Quality control involves testing units and determining if they are within the
specifications for the final product. The purpose of the testing is to determine
any needs for corrective actions in the manufacturing process. Good quality
control helps companies meet consumer demands for better products.
Taguchi Method:
 The Taguchi Method of quality control is another approach that emphasizes
the roles of research and development, product design, and product
development in reducing the occurrence of defects and failures in products.
The Taguchi Method considers design to be more important than the
manufacturing process in quality control and tries to eliminate variances in
production before they can occur.
The Role of Quality Control Inspectors:
 Quality control inspectors protect the consumer from defective products and
the company from damage to its reputation due to inferior manufacturing
processes. If the testing process reveals issues with the product, the inspector
can fix the problem himself, return the product for repairs, or tag the product
for rejection. When issues arise, the inspector notifies supervisors and works
with them to correct the problem.
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11.  The role of a pharmacist has advanced significantly over the past twenty years
expanding from the customary dispensing function to utilizing extensive clinical
knowledge in numerous settings.
 Pharmacy graduates now have opportunities ranging from the traditional pathways
to unique niche areas such as health informatics, patient safety, public health, and
antibiotic stewardships.
 Among these opportunities, the pharmaceutical industry is a setting that allows for
pharmacists to use their expertise of drug knowledge to help patients and
consumers.
 According to the 2018 American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP)
graduating student survey, the pharmaceutical industry was among the top five
employment settings that students selected to go into after graduation.
 Within the pharmaceutical industry, an area that pharmacists may work in is
medical information. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requires
manufacturers to establish a medical information call center to answer drug
questions pertaining to the manufacturer's products from patients and healthcare
providers.
 The medical information specialists have similar job responsibilities but can also
include updating or writing medical letters.
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Community
Awareness
Patient
Counselling
Deaddiction
services
Professional
Dispensing
Screening
Services
Ambulatory
Care

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Pharmacy a complete profession: Pharmacists reflect on every sector of
society in the form of
Artists – designing a drug dosage form,
Lawyer – having fair knowledge of laws and legislation about the drug
Engineer - having sound technical knowledge
Entrepreneur - with sound knowledge of management, accounting,
marketing, Counseling
Health professional - having fair knowledge regarding health.

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