Pharmacists are drug experts!!!
Pharmacist are the drug expert in the health care team.
Pharmacist wears a white lab coat same as the doctors minus the stethoscope.
Pharmacist wears a white lab coat same as the doctors minus the stethoscope.
Pharmacist doesn't just give out medicines to people but they actually dispense the medicines.
What does a pharmacist and assistant pharmacist do, day in day out at the government clinic?
- Screen the prescriptions.
- Intervene; drug interactions, wrong dosing, wrong medication, frequency, duration
- Confirmation; dosage, medication, patient profile
- Print out labels
- Fill in medication according to the prescription
- Dispense medication and advise patient on compliance
- Counseling
- Answer query from all walks of life
- Report adverse drug reaction
- Record patient's allergic reaction
- Top up and pre packing medications
- Order medication stock for patients
- In charge of medication adherence clinic
- Involve in quit smoking programmes
- Post medication to patient
- Promote services (Pharmacy SMS Take N Go, ASSIST, AASCEP, UMP1M, SPUB) to patient
- Send reports
- Attend meetings
- Supervise staffs
- Have fun!!!!
I love my job so much. Alhamdulillah I'm a pharmacist and not a doctor.
Wassalam & Cheers.
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