This course provides the basic
knowledge, skills, and resources that are required for providing a
patient-oriented care service. By which, the students can understand deeply the
role and responsibilities of the pharmacist in providing a medication
management service in various pharmacy practice level with more concentration
on the pharmaceutical care as a model for optimal care.
The course objectives are making the students able to:
- Perform the pharmacist's tasks according to the professional and ethical code of conduct
- Acquire suitable communication skills that are required for a more effective communication process with patients and other healthcare professionals. These skills are essential to ensure that future pharmacists can provide the desired care in the best manner they can.
- Provide drug information and patient counseling sessions, and confirm that patients have grasped how they should use their medications along with their anticipated clinical response.
- Perceive the pharmacist's role as a provider of advanced pharmacy services. This role encompasses activities such as determining certain parameters for the identification of drug therapy problems (actual and potential) and working on solving and preventing them.
- Ensure that the medication therapy is safe, effective, and affordable.
- Acquire knowledge regarding the national health policy, national medicine list, and international law and policies that govern the drug manufacturing, selling, procurement, and management. As well as, participating in the management of the drug supply system on an institutional and national level.
- Know the advanced concepts in pharmacy practice and apply them in the research and practice activities
Content outlines
- Code of ethics and ethical dilemma
- Patient counselling and communication skills
- Compliance and concordance
- Pharmaceutical care
- Pharmacovigilance
- Pharmacoeconomics
- Management drug supply and national drug policy
References:
Cipolle, R. J., Strand, L., Morley, P. C., & Morley, P.
(2004). Pharmaceutical Care Practice: The Clinician's Guide: The Clinician's
Guide. (4th edition): McGraw-Hill Medical.
Rascati, K. (2013). Essentials of pharmacoeconomics. (2nd
edition): Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
Winfield, A. J., Rees, J., & Smith, I. (2009).
Pharmaceutical Practice. (4th edition): Churchill Livingstone Elsevier
health sciences.
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