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Written By: Hanan Khalaf. RPH

Clinical pharmacy can be defined as that area of practice within the health organization in which the pharmacist, through his work within an interdisciplinary team, apply his clinical judgment to assure safe and appropriate use of drugs. This division of pharmacy practice requires specialized education within the pharmacy curricula and structured training to candidates in order to achieve the required goal in their practice.

Based on the above definition, the clinical pharmacist, who is working in direct patient care areas, is usually involved in medical rounds with the other health care professionals and participates in:

  1. Obtaining patient medication histories.

  2. Selecting the most appropriate therapeutic agent and monitor the therapy.

  3. Answering drug information queries to physicians & other health professionals.

  4. Patient education and counseling.

  5. Providing in-service education for physicians, nurses, and other health professionals.

In addition to the above mentioned functions, several other functions are being introduced in the field of clinical pharmacy, but rather in a specialized form. Examples of these are:

  1. Clinical pharmacokinetics. 

  2. Total parenteral nutrition services.

  3. Clinical toxicology practicing in formal poison information centers.

  4. Clinical drug investigations.

  5. Formal drug therapy consultations.

  6. Participation in medication use evaluation.

  7. Specialized clinical pharmacy practice in various medical fields like oncology, nephrology, surgery, pediatrics, intensive care, and others. Such specialization requires specialized training under what is called residency programs and others.

 

MISSION STATEMENT

Pharmacorner is committed to provide drug information, and educate pharmacists and other healthcare professionals in hospitals, and health systems, to advance their role in the patient care process.

VISION STATEMENT

Pharmacorner will:

- Have an active role in formulary management and drug review for different health systems.

- Perform an important role in exchanging experiences between pharmacists through its forum.

- Have an image among pharmacy students, practitioners, and other healthcare  professionals as an efficient reference in pharmacy services advances.

- Influence the role of patient and family education on achieving better outcomes in therapy.

- Promote medication safety and prevent medication errors.

- Provide continuing education through e-learning and training courses.


VALUES

Teamwork: we work together sharing experience, knowledge, and skills.
Quality: excellence is what we are pursuing.
Competency: we share good experience, knowledge, and skills.
Professionalism: we are highly committed to our life long learning process.
Simplicity: information is presented in an easy-to-understand way.
Integrity: all different information is presented to aid in the overall learning process.

Pharmacorner website represents a minor scientific initiative aiming at acquiring and assimilating latest developments in modern pharmaceutical services. This site is available in both Arabic and English Languages for the purpose of circulating information to the vast majority of site visitors.

We are three pharmacists with extensive varied experience in pharmaceutical services, and healthcare quality. Through our site, pharmacorner, we intend to make our know-how available to all visitors in order to offer them information and services whether they are pharmacists, other healthcare professionals, or casual visitors.

Pharmacorner is the outcome of a private independent effort strictly unsubsidized by any official or medical authority. We are only backed by our expertise and a genuine keenness to foster better propagation of science and knowledge. Participation of visitors in what we offer as well as their creative comments thereon will certainly contribute to the success of our mission.

Our ultimate target is to attain full capability of continuously developing our site “pharmacorner” with the intention of gathering the utmost of pharmaceutical information and knowledge to users.

May Allah Grant Us Vigour and Success.