Pharmacist

Pharmacist 's Role

3 pages 2 Sources language Interview a pharmacist - Several features of pharmacies have made the implementation of information systems necessary . First , a pharmacy deals with large numbers of well-defined data and tasks . Second , pharmacists readily accept these systems . Visit with a hospital or retail pharmacy that uses a computer system to answer this question

A . Discuss how the pharmacist 's role has changed with the use of pharmacy information systems . Does the pharmacist consider himself or herself a clinician ? Explain your answer

Yes to some extent the

role of a pharmacist has changed with the implementation of a pharmacy information system (PIS . This is a set of computer system networks and software that are designed to meet the needs of the pharmacy department of the hospital . We can do many activities on such a system including :-

Determine and track the actual use of medications and prescriptions in the hospital

Help the physician to monitor drug information , risk of allergies , drug interactions , medicine-related complications , etc (the pharmacist can counter-check if the patient 's prescription would be having any potential interactions with other previous drugs or conditions

Managing the prescriptions of both inpatients and outpatients . The pharmacist can receive the prescription through the system and accordingly dispense the drugs (better tracking of the prescriptions

Better management of drug inventory - Once the pharmacist makes an entry of dispensing of drugs , automatically , the respective medications would get deducted from the inventory and the pharmacist...