A Research On The Attitude Of The Pharmacist Towards Their Skilled Services In Delivering Pharmaceutical Care
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The American Public Health Association (APHA) states that the traditional product-oriented tasks of dispensing and distributing medications and medical supplies are no longer the only responsibilities of the pharmacist. The current pharmacy professionals provide additional administrative, public health, and patient-focused services. Pharmacotherapy, access to care, and prevention services are just a few of the many aspects of public health that might profit from pharmacists' special knowledge. Pharmacists have shown to be a reliable source of knowledge on health and medications in addition to delivering medication. The additional role includes medication order review, patients’ medication history interview, participating in ward rounds, adverse drug monitoring, drug interaction studies, Therapeutic drug monitoring, delivering medication information at the drug information and poison information Centre, Patient counselling regarding safe and rational use of drugs. The current study focused on the role of pharmacist to provide additional services in addition to dispensing of drugs.It was a Cross sectional prospective observational study conducted with the pharmacists working in Government hospitals, Primary Health Centers, Private hospitals and as well as Community Pharmacies. The study was conducted in five districts, by covering rural, urban and semi urban areas. All the pharmacists participated were personally assessed by conducting a direct interaction offline and online mode. This was performed to study the attitude of the pharmacists towards providing additional services to the patients apart from dispensing of drugs to provide better pharmaceutical care. It was done by using a validated questionnaire as the tool. All of them professionally participated in the assessments and fully supported the study. The study concluded that patient counselling plays a key role in pharmaceutical care by the pharmacist.
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