Hospital Pharmacist
Mafraq hospital SEHA
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :19 years, 11 أشهر
check prescriptions to make sure there are no errors and that they're appropriate and safe for the individual patient;
provide advice on the dosage of medicines and the most appropriate form of medication, for example, tablet, injection, ointment or inhaler;
liaise with other medical staff on problems patients may experience when taking their medicines;
discuss treatments with patients' relatives, other pharmacists and GPs;
make sure medicines are stored appropriately and securely;
supervise the work of less experienced and less qualified staff;
answer questions about medicines from within the hospital, other hospitals and the general public;
keep up to date with, and contribute to, research and development;
write guidelines for drug use within the hospital and implement hospital regulations;
provide information on expenditure on drugs;
Dispense prescriptions: This is the "filling, licking and sticking" most people imagine when they conjure a mental image of a pharmacist counting out tablets, preparing a bottle label and handling medications to patients.
Communicate with prescribers: Any time a prescription order is unclear or potentially harmful for a patient, you need to confirm the dosage and formulation (e.g., liquid or tablet), as well as whether brand name product is required or if you can substitute a generic equivalent.
Ensure patients' safety: Check each patient’s medication record every time he or she gets a new or refill prescription filled. This is the best way for a pharmacist to prevent potentially dangerous interactions between drugs.
Counsel patients: This involves more than informing about adverse reactions and interactions with other medications, food, alcohol and other beverages like grapefruit juice. Counseling includes training patients how and when to take doses, following up with patients to see if medications are working, sharing tips on how to minimize side effects while maximizing benefits and listening to all of a patient's concerns.
Work with patients on general health: Maintain health requires more than taking prescription medications, Pharmacists can help patients heal and avoid getting sick by sharing advice on using nonprescription remedies, taking health supplements such as vitamins, using herbal and natural health products, exercising and maintaining a good diet.
Pharmacists have the ultimate responsibility for ensuring the “three Rs” of right drug, right patient and right dose.
Actively participates in the day to day management of the pharmacy. Ensures the development, maintenance and enforcement of policies and procedures to comply with the standards of practice of pharmacy as set out by the authorities.
Ensures that all professional staff who are working, or enrolled in practice experience rotations, in the pharmacy maintain current licensure with the health authorities and on public display.
Manage staff: Pharmacists have the ultimate responsibility for ensuring the “three Rs” of right drug, right patient and right dose.
Perform administrative tasks: Everyone in a pharmacy has some responsibilities.
Communicate with prescribers: unclear or potentially harmful for a patient, you need to confirm the dosage and formulation as well as whether brand name product is required or if you can substitute a generic equivalent.
Ensure patients' safety.
Monthly reporting to health authorities controlled semi controlled reporting and drug incidence reporting. Performing all tasks related to controlled drugs like; ordering, receiving, dispensing, registering and stock taking, statistics and reports.
Notifies the health authorities in writing of professional practice problems.
Ensures mechanisms for the procurement, storage, security, and disposition of drugs and the provision of pharmacy services are present. Also, establish mechanisms for, and supervise, the record keeping system for the purchase, sale, possession, storage, safekeeping, recall, and return of drugs are appropriately.
Establishes and maintains effective controls against the theft or diversion of prescription drugs and records for such drugs.
Managing staff by checking medicines availability in the pharmacy, receiving, placing on the shelves, tracing the expiry date, and regular inventory checking.
Taking care as the pharmacist in charge of all expired items professionally by listing preparing and contacting the vender, supplier to be returned and other expired items not being able to be returned to vender and supplies prepare a list for it and contact the waste management department in hospitals under the supervision of health authority.
Taking approval and follow up approval for high value prescriptions from different insurance company and being responsible of all biological medications pre-approval for rheumatology doctors, internal medicine doctors, medical compartment and supportive medical instrument from orthopaedic doctor.
Good experience in Inpatient pharmacy by dispensing to all word, emergency and discharged patients with patients counselling. Attending all telephone calls received from any department in the hospital and other health facilities to provide them with drug information as well as assisting the pharmacist with any information regarding: drug-drug interaction, drug-food interaction, administering medications in pregnancy and breast feeding, checking the therapeutic dose.
Meeting with the doctor’s every week to negotiate the entire required drugs list they need to be available for their patients.
Continuous medical education: I established the program of continuous medical education on weekly basis, and organized around 45 lectures for medical professional staff.
Organizing weekly meeting for the pharmacy staff to negotiate updating requirement that helps the improvement of pharmacy business, find solution for any difficulties that face the pharmacy department and try to close up the idea, thought’s between all staff.
Weekly testing newly joined pharmacist staff and trainee pharmacist and assistance pharmacist.
Founder of the therapeutic committees organizing and arrange meeting every two week to introduce new drugs in hospital benefit, information’s and importance to add in pharmacy department.
Educate health provider colleagues: Doctors, nurses and other health care providers about new medications and drug therapy protocols.
Program, direct, review, and rectify pharmacy procedures. And render assistance to the technical and professional personnel dispensing of various medications utilized by and sold to patients.
Make formal requests for all supplies needed.
Set up and maintain a certified system of keeping records and the preparation of yearly budgets and inventories.
Establish and support pharmacy services in line with health authorities. And design and organize job descriptions and prepare annual performance evaluation on all employees in a prompt manner.
Support supervising staff with the annual budget and hand over capital expenditures in line with standard policies.
Evaluate and improve manual of Policy and Procedure every year. Institute and implement enhancement of quality for the pharmacy. Staff and orientation and supervision, as well as dismissal when necessary.
Plan, administer, organize, and successfully implement all activities in relation to the pharmacy operations.
Provide guidance on medications and prescriptions and over-the-counter drugs in line with pharmacy policies.
Supervises the operation of the pharmacy and Improves district prescription sales, profit, and image through ensuring the accurate filling of prescriptions and the courteous and efficient service to customers.
Recommends plans and coordinates sales and promotional programs for pharmacy.
Analyzes and recommends loss prevention procedures and assures proper implementation of internal controls. Conducts regularly scheduled inventories and checks pharmacy security procedures, and performs mini-audits
Reviews pharmacy policies, procedures and inventory to ensure compliance with health authorities’ regulations.
Maintenance of documents recording, the proper records, including controlled substance records, received purchased drug, expiry, withdrawn medicine, yearly inventory and any important circulations from the authorities.
Manages the transferal of controlled substances from closed or acquired locations, and ensures that records are available in receiving stores, to include inventory of transferred controlled drugs taken on the day transferred, and all records for transferred controlled drugs, to include invoices, claims, and prescriptions
Analyzes and recommends improved pharmacy department maintenance procedures and appearance standards; recommends changes in physical layouts
Plans and coordinates the opening, closing and remodeling of pharmacy.
Informs all appropriate personnel of plans, programs and operations that affect their areas, and encourages feedback from all employees so as to increase productivity.
Actively participates in the day to day management of the pharmacy and supervises the professional and non-professional staff.
Cooperates fully with any inspector appointed by the DHA and MOH. And monthly reporting to health authorities controlled semi controlled reporting and drug incidence reporting. Performing all tasks related to controlled drugs like; ordering, receiving, dispensing, registering and stock taking, statistics and reports.
Ensures the development, maintenance and enforcement of policies and procedures to comply with the standards of practice of pharmacy as set out in an enactment or a professional standard adopted by the health authorities.
Ensures the development of error reporting and response to customer complaint systems, maintenance and enforcement of a quality management program, to improve departmental procedures, minimize medication related errors and increase patient safety.
Notifies the health authorities in writing of professional practice problems or conduct that could affect the health or safety of patients by any pharmacist.
Is knowledgeable of the requirements related to delivery of pharmacy services to clientele, whether local, national, or international; and ensures that confidentiality is maintained with respect to all patient records, especially when sharing information to improve patient care;
Ensures that all professional staff (pharmacists, assistance pharmacist, and trainee pharmacist) who is working or enrolled in practice experience rotations, in the pharmacy maintains current licensure with health authorities. And ensures that all professional licenses are current and on public display.
Ensures that information directed to the pharmacy related to drugs, devices, diversion tactics and the practice of pharmacy is accessible to all staff and that any pharmacist, assistance pharmacist and trainee pharmacist is informed of its location in the pharmacy;
Ensures the adoption of policies, to the extent possible, that the pharmacy has an adequate stock of drugs and devices to meet the needs of its patients.
Ensures mechanisms for the procurement, storage, security, and disposition of drugs and the provision of pharmacy services are present. Also, establish mechanisms for, and supervise, the record keeping system for the purchase, sale, possession, storage, safekeeping, recall, and return of drugs are appropriately;
Establishes and maintains effective controls against the theft or diversion of prescription drugs and records for such drugs;
If the pharmacy contracts with, or contracts to, another pharmacy to provide pharmacy services to its patients, the PIC ensures that standards of practice are met by both parties and that the patient is adequately and appropriately served;
Ensures that the pharmacy employs an adequate number of qualified personnel commensurate with the size and scope of services provided by the pharmacy; And ensures there is a licensed pharmacist on duty during all hours of operation;
Establishes policies and procedures detailing orientation of new staff. Establishes policies and procedures for orientation and training of students.
Ensures the availability of any equipment and references necessary for the particular practice of pharmacy;
Ensures that each individual working in the pharmacy wears a badge/name tag that clearly identifies him or her as a pharmacist, certified dispenser, student or technician.
Providing advice about health issues, symptoms and medications in response to customer enquiries and processing prescriptions and dispensing medication. arrange the delivery of prescribed medicines to patients, Make sure medicines supplied correspond with the prescriptions and make sure there is no dispensing error
Marketing services as administer prescription medicines, general product, cosmetics and OTC to the public.
Counsel and advice patients on the treatment of minor ailments (illness). And advice customers on health issues and medications.
Monitor blood pressure, as well as cholesterol levels of customers when the need arises and offer diabetes screening exercise as per as the MOH approvals.
Attend regular meetings with medical representatives
Ensures that confidentiality is maintained with respect to all patient records, especially when sharing information to improve patient care.
Communicate with prescribers: Any time a prescription order is unclear or potentially harmful for a patient, you need to confirm the dosage and formulation.
Work with patients on general health: Maintain health requires more than taking prescription medications, Pharmacists can help patients heal and avoid getting sick by sharing advice on using nonprescription remedies, taking health supplements such as vitamins.
• Supervising Pharmacists and support personnel engaged in the provision of pharmaceutical services.
Reviewing operations of the Pharmacy for compliance with policies, laws and regulations.
Visits pharmaceutical firms, both public and private, to inspect premises, records and reports on narcotics and antibiotics and other dangerous drugs in compliance with relevant legislation.
Writes reports on operational matters, medication usage and budgetary matters, as required.
Inspects drug storage areas for adequacy of drug stock and pharmaceuticals for proper labeling and storage, expiration dates, effective strength, sanitary condition, and security measures; takes periodic inventories of pharmaceutical supplies; recommends condemnation of obsolete stock; select proper storage for drugs and chemicals with regard to humidity, permissible storage time, temperature and light sensitivity.
Keeps abreast of current trends and practices in pharmaceutical care.
Places/Receives orders for Pharmaceutical supplies.
Consults with and advises medical staff concerning information obtained on medications, such as, warnings issued on drugs, incompatibility of certain drugs or contraindications of drugs and alternate drug therapy.
Provides guidance and consultation regarding pharmaceutical services to patients, staff and the public.
Interviews patients to obtain information regarding drug use, drug allergies and sensitivities, medication histories; assesses compliance and counsels patients on appropriate drug use.
To assist in the operations and dispensing of prescriptions and the supply of pharmaceutical products including controlled drugs and appliances ensuring safety and clinical appropriateness.
Responds to symptoms and recommends appropriate OTC medication.
Counsel and advice patients appropriately under supervision.
Works within legal, ethical and governance framework keeping abreast of current changes.
Develop good management, leadership and communication skills to prepare for future role as a qualified pharmacist.
To participate in the training programmer as required by the health authorities and ministry of health and prepare for the pre-registration examination.
To be responsible for self-directed learning to support the collection of a portfolio of evidence to demonstrate competence and participate in appraisals with the preregistration tutor as per company guidance and DHA or HAAD programmer compliance.
To attend study days and complete pre and post study assignments organized by PIC.
To develop knowledge and skills within each competency areas as mapped to DHA or HAAD performance standards.
To plan own workload and study time to develop organizational skills and support the provision of a timely pharmaceutical service.
To communicate and liaise effectively with other members of the healthcare professions and build relationships with external organizations such as GP surgeries and PCT’s.
Maintain confidentiality of company policies and figure statistics.
Ensure all prescriptions are fully and accurately endorsed.
Deal with customer complaints promptly and efficiently in accordance with company policy.
pharmacy degree with 2.31 degree
