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Clinical Pharmacist Job Description
What does a Clinical Pharmacist do? Does a Clinical Pharmacist job imply direct contact with patients? What services is he / she supposed to offer? To clarify on these matters it is best to define a clear Clinical Pharmacist Job Description.
Overall description of the job.
A Clinical Pharmacist is in charge of providing various services tothe Division Director, such as taking part in continuing education programs for Medical staff, health care services, and Pharmacy students, advising physicians on drug usage and dose control in hospitals and clinics, and assisting the Division Director in his everyday duties.
Specific duties and activities
The specialized services demanded by a Clinical Pharmacist Job include advising physicianson the inherent dangers of drugs and their eventual side effects as well as helping them in the prescription of correct doses. This advice promotes improvement in drug usage / dosage and in the supervision of therapeutic procedures for best results.
Clinical Pharmacist responsibilities also include coordinating the pharmacy technician ´s duties – who work in the preparation, labeling anddelivery of various medications or supplies according to prescriptions - and making sure that all dispensed drugs are recorded and delivered in accordance with local, state and federal laws or regulations.
Some of the Clinical Pharmacist Job duties are related to Education, as mentor pharmacists. They may train Pharmacy Residents, whose university activities include practical and theoretical knowledge,along with didactic direct experience. They may also deliver conferences at conventions and seminars.
Necessary Qualifications
To work at this level, it is necessary a BS Pharmacy Degree or a Doctor Pharmacy Degree and at least a two-year experience. Certifications in different areas of Pharmacy and an accredited residence program are a plus.
However, certain personal abilities are all vital,such as communication abilities (both oral and written), deep knowledge on drugs, medical procedures and therapies, diagnosis and disease states, and some pharmaco-kinetics. Skills in working with technical automated equipment and information systems are an added value to any Pharmacy Career.
Pharmacists as Researchers
Research is another broad field for Pharmacists who can perform as researchersor co-researchers for programs intended to study the impacts of providing quality care, pharmacoeconomic impact, etc.
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Abstract
Since the concept of Pharmaceutical Care was introduced from United States about twenty years ago, this initiative has become a dominant form of practice for thousands ofpharmacists around the world. Currently, pharmaceutical care is understood as the pharmacists' compromise to obtain the maximum benefit from the pharmacological treatments of the patients, being therefore responsible of monitoring their pharmacotherapy. As the profession has moved from a product orientation (dispensing medications) to a patient focus, clinical training requirements have expanded.This is a slow but ongoing process, which started from a philosophical point of view, in order to transform the concept of Pharmacy from commodity-based, mercantile operations into a clinical profession in the community pharmacies. Since its introduction, there has been an ample debate on the definition of pharmaceutical care due to differences in Pharmacy systems and in health care structure amongthe different countries. Moreover, several implementation barriers exist, which are attributable to problems in education, skills, resources and environment. Indeed, an awareness of the problem resulting from the use of medicines exists and numerous studies reflect that drug use control is necessary since there is an important relationship between morbidity / mortality and pharmacotherapy. Thus,...