1. The hospital must
employ a qualified; at least a registered pharmacist with at least B. Pharmacy degree as the ‘Chief Pharmacist’ and
the rest may be at least diploma holders in pharmacy.
2. The hospital should
not permit non-pharmacist personnel to dispense drugs and allied
materials.
3. The hospital must
employ a sufficient number of qualified personnel considering the workload of a
pharmacist and allow for adequate coverage of the pharmacy seven days a
week.
4. The hospital must
provide adequate safe, workspace, and storage facilities for the pharmacy.
5. The pharmacy should
have the equipment necessary for safety and adequately carry out the modern practice
of pharmacy.
6. The hospital must have
an ‘automatic stop order’ regulation for dangerous drugs, e.g. narcotics hypnotics,
anticoagulants, etc.
7. The hospital should
have a firm policy regarding the use of research drugs in the hospital and its
clinics.
8. The hospital should
have a drug formulary which periodically revised and kept up to date.
9. The hospital should
not permit any person other than a registered pharmacist into the pharmacy
“outside its working hours”.
10. The poisons and
poisonous materials should be adequately separated from nonpoisonous materials
in the pharmacy and the wards, etc.
11. The external use
preparations should be separated from internal use medications in the pharmacy
and the wards, etc.
12. The pharmacy-manufactured
products for patient's use if any, must have adequate during the processing and
also in the final products.
13. The hospital should
provide or to the chief pharmacist, sufficient help to permit him to engage in
a teaching program to familiarize the nursing and resident staff with new drugs
and to teach the student nurses the basic course of pharmaceutical mathematics
and pharmacology.
14. All nursing drug
statistics should be periodically inspected to remove deteriorated and outdated
drugs as well as to check all labels for legibility.
15. The pharmacy should
have an adequate reference library that contains texts on pharmacology,
toxicology, and posology and journals containing adequate information on newer
developments in the pharmaceutical world.