Responsibilities of Hospital Pharmacist

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 Hospital Pharmacy is any Pharmacy department which is situated inside a hospital premises.The qualified persons who manages the hospital pharmacy with due responsibility are known as hospital Pharmacist.The Pharmacist should be legally qualified,professional.

Responsibilities of Hospital Pharmacists are:-

1. Dispensing of drugs and medications as prescribed by the doctor and explaining the patients about dosage regimen.

2. Manufacturing and distribution of the drugs which are prepared in the hospital pharmacies. These include common tablets, creams and capsules.

3. Responsibility of the Pharmacy: The Hospital pharmacist is responsible for purchase of drugs, proper storage of medicines, maintenance of records, Stock check, ordering the medicine which are getting over in the stock etc.

4. Providing therapeutic drug monitoring to the patients, explaining about the doses.

5. Patient interaction and understanding the need for the patients and supplying suitable doses.

6. Patient counselling.

7. To ensure that all the medicines are handled carefully and ensuring that no mishandling of medicine takes in the pharmacy.

8. To check for Adverse drug reactions.










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