Pharmacy Practice and its Advancements

Fakhsheena Anjum

Department of Pharmaceutics & Pharmacy Practice, Dow College of Pharmacy, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan.

Fakhsheena Anjum, Department of Pharmaceutics & Pharmacy Practice, Dow College of Pharmacy, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan.

Keywords: Critical Care; Medication Therapy; Drug Therapy; Therapy Monitoring

Abstract

In Pharmacy Practice settings, attention has been moved from the product to the patient in recent years. The pharmacists’ care, (known as Pharmaceutical care), is a process for patients’ care which involves not only the identification of probable and actual drug-related problems but also encompasses their resolution and prevention plans. These activities are carried out by the pharmacists in various specialty practice areas like Ambulatory Care Pharmacy, Critical Care Pharmacy, Oncology Pharmacy, etc. For practice in such diversified fields, a pharmacist should have necessary knowledge and intellectual proficiencies; a local association is necessary to represent pharmacy practitioners along with the professional code of conduct and ethics for the guidance and practice of pharmacists.

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