• Supply of drugs, medicine, and allied products to
the nursing units and other such services.
• Filing of special prescriptions for ambulatory and
out-patients and dispensing as per the intention of a physician.
• Manufacturing of the drugs and formulations in bulk
and in particular the large volume parenterals which are required for the use
of indoor patients.
• Storage and dispensing of narcotic and biological
products.
• Supply and storage of ancillary products and
articles required in the hospitals.
The term “Pharmaceutical Services” in a hospital
(hospital pharmacy) comprises the
services rendered to the patient through several activities the major of
which are as follows:
• Dispensing of drugs and medicine as per the
prescriptions of the medical staff of the hospital for outdoor patients and
indoor patients.
• Management of the stores which include:
- Purchase of drugs and medicines and other allied stores as per the recommendations of the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee.
- Providing instructions for proper storage of such drugs and medicines.
- Maintenance of proper records of the drugs purchased and the distribution thereof.
• Manufacture and distribution of medicaments and
products such as:
- Transfusion fluids and other parenteral products are required by the medical staff, which are not manufactured and marketed.
- Tablets.
- Capsules.
- Ointments and other external use preparations.
- The stock mixture is as per the hospital formulary.
• Providing drug monitoring services by studying the effects of various drugs administered to the patients especially the indoor patients from the patient’s charts maintained in the wards by the nursing staff.
• Establishment and maintenance of Drug Information Centre.
• Patient counseling services while supplying drugs,
especially from the out-patients department.
• Maintaining relations with the medical staff,
nursing staff, and other patients. To serve them readily with information on
various aspects of drugs and their proper usage, when required by them, through the drug
information center.
• To maintain the nursing department and the central
sterile supply unit in the hospital.
• Participate in the teaching programs of the nursing
and pharmacy students and case of an attached medical college.
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| Fig.1: Boundaries and Interactions of Hospital Pharmacy Department |