Hospital pharmacist

Typical work activities include:
participating in ward rounds to take patient drug histories and contribute to the treatment decision-making process - this includes highlighting a drug's potential side effects, harmful interactions with other drugs and the suitability of treatments for patients with particular health conditions;

liaising with physicians, nurses and other fellow health care professionals to ensure the delivery of safe, effective and economic drug treatment;

counselling patients on the effects, dosage and route of administration of their drug treatments, particularly those who require complex drug therapy;

monitoring every stage of medication therapy to improve all aspects of delivery and report patient side effects;

communicating effectively with patients' relatives, community pharmacists, general practitioners (GPs), etc;

preparing and quality-checking sterile medications under special conditions (eg, intravenous medications for those unable to take food otherwise, anti-cancer medications, eye drops, etc);
ensuring medicinal products are stored appropriately and securely to ensure freshness and potency;

ensuring medication reaches the patient in the correct form and dose - this may include tablets, capsules, ointments, injections, inhalers or creams;

being responsible for the accurate dispensing and timely distribution of drugs and medicines, for inpatients or outpatients;
supervising and checking the work of less experienced and less qualified staff;
responding to medication-related queries from within the hospital, other hospitals and the general public;

keeping up to date with, and contributing to, research and development, often in collaboration with medical staff and colleagues in the pharmaceutical industry;
writing guidelines for drug use within the hospital, preparing bulletins and implementing hospital regulations;

providing information to individual wards on budgets and expenditure on drugs;
setting up clinical trials, evaluating new medications against claims made by pharmaceutical companies and recommending new medicines that are the safest and most effective for individual patient needs.

Hmm working in Hospital. . .


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when is school starting ?

I finally went to register my enrolement last saturday @ RP. Honestly, i wasn't really keen about getting back to school and generate my brain. Perhaps, living the life of a king isn't that productivity at all haha. The journey to my school is going to be far, and worst still it's not located beside the MRT station. oh well, we shall see.

How are you? readers. Mugging your studies? In the midst of a relationship? Experience any setback or joyous occasion lately ? Practising hard for the Singapore Youth Festival ? Share with me, via email, sms, msn!!. =)

I think my drum skills is improving well right on track, ALMOST as i want it to be. I was reluctant to attend the training session from church at first but this week will be the last. I hope to end with a big bang. Plus, i am learning bass guitar currently, but have no plans to purchase one yet. No money in my a/c. haha

I will be having 2 orientation starting 3april and another one around 13 april. The first one is organised from the faculty and another one as a poly together. Oh well let's see what they have planned.

Lastly, I want to congrate all those who had their appeals for JAE choosen and for those who have yet to or has unsuccessful application. Don't be discouraged, get motivated instead. A setback is a start of a success. :)

finally another post :P

oops, it's been a while since i last post something. From my last post, i talked about my o levels, now it has been more than a month since i received it. Am i suppose to be happy or sad, i got no idea. It's just not really the way i wanted it to be. Well, perhaps i should be contented that my results were better than most of my stream. Anyway i got into the course i wanted to but not the school, but it's alright. As this year's JAE was damn tricky.

yep, schools starting in last than a month's time. I am going to finalise my registration by this week and get a laptop haha.

Anyway, sorry readers for not updateing, i was just too busy travelling in and out of s'pore and m'sia handling stuffs. Since school is starting, i shall read out more about things related to my course :P and perhaps post it out.

Cheers