Introduction to Clinical Pharmacy Practice, Definitions and Aim, Objectives, Scopes or services of Clinical Pharmacy, Functions and Roles of Clinical Pharmacy, Qualities of Clinical Pharmacy.

1. Presented By
Ms. Monika P. Maske
Assistant Professor
M. Pharm
(Pharmaceutical Chemistry)
Kamla Nehru College of Pharmacy, Butibori, Nagpur

2. Clinical
Pharmacy
Treatment
Care of
Patients
Safe &
Appropriate
use of drugs
Monitoring
patient
therapy

3.  Clinical pharmacy able to dispense knowledge to
patients and physicians.
 New drugs when released to market, pharmacy
profession move towards pharmacology, clinical
therapeutics and pharmacokinetics.
 Hospital services take lead to studied the powerful
drugs used in hospital ADR.

4.  when this problem increases then there is need of
clinical pharmacy services.
 Clinical pharmacy is a set of functions that that
promotes the safe, effective and economic use f
medicines for individual patients.

5.  In 1976,
Baker define the clinical pharmacy as
pharmacist involvement in monitoring patient therapy
& giving advice which directly influences the decisions
about drug therapy and the way in which its
administered.

6.  Educationally,
its define as the treatment & care of
patients by members of the health team in presence of
pharmacy students, with particular emphasis on the
safe and appropriate use of drugs.

7.  To providing the student pharmacist with educational
experience in clinical setting.
 To design a program for helping students for better
future role as health professional.

8.  It gives the experience in small group presentations &
answering questions regarding therapy by colleagues and
physicians, nurses.
 It also provide opportunity to observe & interact with
physicians for better understanding of current medical
practice.
 It gives opportunity to work with paramedical personnel &
increases knowledge about their attitudes and contributions
to patient care.

9.  It helps to learn patient orientations towards drug
therapy so they provide better services to patients.
 It also provides the knowledge of effects of drugs on
diagnostic tests, drug interactions.
 It provide drug information through drug evaluations.
 It also provide institutional environment by pharmacist
practices in institutions.

10.  Compound and dispenses prescription.
 To prepare medication histories of patients for record.
 To provide care & responsibility for distribution of
substances.
 To help in selecting & monitoring drug therapy.
 To provide education & counseling.

11.  Explains the directions for use of prescription
medicine at the time of delivery of prescriptions.
 To establishes & monitor a proper storage of pharmacy
drugs like insulin, medicines, etc.
 To select mfg. sources of drug products to be
purchased under generic names.
 To maintains prescription profile records for
ambulatory patients.

12.  To participate in emergencies, ADR, acute and chronic
disease states.
 To develop guidelines for use of antibiotics.
 To detect& report the ADR.
 To participate in drug use reviews & quality assurance
programs.

13.  To use the pharmacokinetic principles in determining,
modifying the dose of selected drugs.
 To initiates & participates in research including
clinical drug investigations.
 To provides formal and informal consultations with
physicians regarding medications.

14. I. Communication Skill :-
Clinical Pharmacy have good communication skill for
communicate with patients and physicians freely and
effectively.
II. Professional Relationship :-
Clinical Pharmacy should have develop physician ,
nurses an inter-personal relationship with each other to
increase quality of patient care.

15. III. Chemical Skill :-
Clinical Pharmacy have knowledge about
etiology of diseases, signs, symptoms, lab test,
pharmacokinetics, etc. Clinical Pharmacy trained for
providing information about drug use, drug released,
therapy and receiving drug doses.
V. Empathy :-
Clinical Pharmacy have shared responsibility
towards medical car of patients.

16. V. Monitoring Drug Therapy :-
Motioning drug therapy of on-going
process and keeps changing depending upon
patients conditions.